BMI. We find that selfreported BMI significantly underestimates obesity rates and suggest that the traditional threshold … that the new obesity threshold for self-reported BMI could be as low as 26. …

Because obesity is a risk factor for many serious illnesses such as diabetes, better understandings of obesity and … study directions by unifying economic theory of addiction and obesity (Becker and Murphy, 1988; Levy 2002; Dragone 2009 …), and recent empirical findings in neuroeconomics and neurobiology of obesity and addiction. It is suggested that …

Objective: To investigate the relationship between short sleep and obesity among Thai adults. Design: Both 4-year … longitudinal and cross-sectional analyses of a large national cohort. Setting: Thai adults residing nationwide from 2005 to 2009 … was categorised as <6, 6, 7, 8 and ≥9 h. For all analyses (2005 and 2009 cross-sectional and 2005-2009 longitudinal), we …