THE ONSET OF A MAJOR RECESSION PLACES THE ECO-nomic correlates of obesity into
sharp relief. Even in good economic times, obesity imposes great financial burden on …

The prevalence of obesity in the US population has increased steadily since the 1960s—
from 3.4 percent of adults in 1962 to 39.8 percent in 2016, the year of the most recent …

The effects of obesity have become practically ubiquitous in the US. This book aims to
provide an alternative framework through which to explore the important and controversial …

Obesity is a national health crisis—that much we know. If current trends continue, it will soon
surpass smoking in the US as the big gest single factor in early death, reduced quality of life …

Obesity is typically treated as a problem of public health or personal attractiveness. While
obesity is all of those things, it is even more an economic phenomenon. More than many …

As the obesity epidemic spreads, concern about the significant health and economic
consequences has also grown. Obesity has been linked to a variety of chronic diseases …

These critics, all academic researchers outside the medical community, do not dispute
surveys that find the obese fraction of the population to have roughly doubled in the US and …

OBESITY HAS BECOME PANDEMIC IN THE UNITED States. Currently, 2 in 3 US adults are
classi-fied as overweight or obese, compared with fewer than 1 in 4 in the early 1960s. 1, 2 …

▪ Abstract Obesity is not only a health but also an economic phenomenon. This chapter (a)
examines underlying economic causes, such as technological advancements, behind the …

Obesity is the most common nutrition disorder in the United States and other developed
countries today (17, 29). Clinical observations have long suggested a connection between …