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In light of the shift in policy paradigm in agriculture from state intervention to market liberalisation and globalisation, this paper develops a series of hypotheses on the relationship between agricultural policies and consumer diets. The first hypothesis is that the paradigm shift has led to...
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We find a robust relationship between motor vehicle ownership, its interaction with legal heritage and obesity in OECD …% point increase in obesity in common law countries, whereas it has a much smaller or insignificant impact in civil law … regression analysis. Our results suggest that obesity rises with motor vehicle ownership in countries following a common law …
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. Furthermore, regular fitness activity and eating fruits and vegetables regularly had negative relationships with obesity, and …Overweight and obesity have been major challenges over the last several decades. The study analyzed factors affecting … obesity in the Alabama Black Belt and surrounding counties. Using a questionnaire, data were obtained from a convenience …
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The last decades there has been characterizes by a worrying rise in obesity among both adults and in children …'s services. Obesity is considered disease XXI century. Obesity includes a medical field which accumulates a major issue and …." Subsequently, the Indian surgeon Sushruta (VI century BC) noted connection between obesity and heart disease. In Europe in medieval …
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(precisely, obesity and alcohol consumption) and the utilisation of health care services, in a number of OECD countries. This …
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This paper quantifies the impact of consumer’s diet-health behaviours on an important health outcome. We use data from the 2007-2008 U.S. NHANES to estimate the impact of dietary supplement intake on respondent’s BMI outcomes, controlling for diet quality using Healthy Eating Index scores....
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We estimate the relationship between changes in the body mass index (bmi) and wages or satisfaction, respectively, in a panel of German employees. In contrast to previous literature, the dynamic models indicate that there is an inverse u-shaped association between bmi and wages among young...
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obesity-related health risks. For given diseases, we document substantial heterogeneities in the accuracy of expectations …
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This study has used India Human Development Survey, 2005 to study the factors influencing the Body Mass Index (BMI) of women between 20 to 40 years of age in India. BMI captures both undernutrition and over nutrition and a quantile regression model has been used to capture the differential...
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Food systems in developing countries are transforming, involving a rapid expansion of supermarkets. This supermarket revolution may affect dietary patterns and nutrition, but empirical evidence is scarce. The few existing studies have analyzed implications for food consumers and producers...
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