Obese people incur higher health care costs at a given point in time, but how rising obesity
rates affect spending growth over time is unknown. We estimate obesity-attributable health …

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besity, often defined as having a body mass index 20 hat. h eotcnldsta nefcieslto e percent …

The discipline of economics plays a varied role in informing the understanding of the
problem of obesity and the impact of different interventions aimed at addressing it. This …

The majority of the US adult population is now overweight or obese (Flegal, Carroll et al.
2002; Hedley, Ogden, et al. 2004), and as the number of overweight children and adults …

According to the third National Health and Nutritional Examination Survey, at least one third
of adults older than age 20 are overweight, and the prevalence of obesity has increased to …

This article highlights characteristics of two related yet distinct economic approaches to
addressing the current obesity epidemic in the United States: the general taxation of soft …

In this call for papers, we encourage authors to submit articles considering how to change
the behavior of the food industry. Here's why. Since we published the Special Section on …

Potential obesity-related policy approaches have recently been receiving more attention.
Although some have been implemented and others only proposed, few have been formally …

The impact of obesity on the health of Americans has led public health authorities to
describe it as the 'greatest single threat to public health in this century'. 1 The prevalence of …

In the last decade, the prevalence of obesity has increased significantly in populations
worldwide. A less dramatic, but equally important increase has been seen in our knowledge …