This review summarizes current understanding of economic factors during the obesity
epidemic and dispels some widely held, but incorrect, beliefs. Rising obesity rates coincided …

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 …

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 …

▪ 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 …

The combination of economic and biological factors is likely to result in overeating in the
current environment of cheap and readily available food. This propensity is shown using a …

The rise in obesity rates, both nationally and internationally, is a result of changes in the
environment that have simultaneously lowered the cost of food production, lowered the time …

This paper reviews the economic research on obesity, covering topics such as the
measurement of, and trends in, obesity, the economic causes of obesity (eg the monetary …

Obesity has been identified as an epidemic in the United States for more than two decades
and yet the numbers of overweight and obese adults and children continue to grow …

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 …

In 2001, the Surgeon General's “Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and
Obesity” 1 identified obesity as a key public health priority for the United States. Obesity …