or obese should increase the demand for medical care, particularly as clinical studies link obesity to a number of …

Obesity and overweight are linked to diseases that cost society a significant amount of resources. While behavior …

to sizeable increases in the prevalence of overweight and obesity among low-income children. …

Obesity is a complex medical problem that according to World Health Organization has become a global epidemic. Its … suffer a double burden of disease arising from the coexistence of obesity and malnutrition. In this paper we analyze the … results from the Risk Factors National Survey relating the prevalence of obesity and overweight in Argentinean provinces with …

activity (LTPA) and work-related physical activity (WRPA) on obesity and chronic conditions in Canadian adults aged 18-75 using …Although many papers have looked at the effect of physical activity on obesity and other health outcomes, the causal … an active level of LTPA (i.e. walking greater than or equal to 1 hour/day) reduces the probability of obesity by five …

Along with the economic and technological developments of the past decades, obesity has become a growing public health … problem. This study empirically investigates whether the large and widespread increases in body-mass index (BMI) that have … the level of, and five-year change in, BMI. Decomposing the freedom index into sub-indices measuring economic freedom in …

In response to the dramatic rise in childhood obesity, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) and other organizations …, Kindergarten Cohort (ECLS-K) for 1998–2004. Results from IV models indicate that PE lowers BMI z-score and reduces the probability … of obesity among 5th graders. This effect is concentrated among boys; we find evidence that this gender difference is …

measure educational inequalities in overweight and obesity, based on BMI. Gross domestic product (GDP) per capita was used as … and obesity. However, there may be important international differences in the strength and direction of this relationship … overweight and obesity across Europe, and to explore the contribution of level of socio-economic development to cross …