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The Pediatric Obesity Epidemic Continues Unabated in Bogalusa, Louisiana
... and obesity, children in Bo- galusa have experienced higher rates of increase since the early 1980s, and the gap seems to be widening (Fig ...childhood obesity epidemic given by the Bogalusa trends ...
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Tax Policy and the Obesity Epidemic
... This Article begins with a brief summary of the growing obesity epidemic in the U.S. It then explores some of the central contributing factors to the mounting obesity problem among U.S. children and ...
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Modeling the obesity epidemic: social contagion and its implications for control
... while obesity contagion on a social contact network has been empirically studied in literature [22-24], we have employed a homogeneously mixing assumption for mathematical convenience and to identify key par- ...
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Complex and controversial causes for the ‘obesity epidemic’: The role of marketing communications
... Obesity incidence is increasing in many developed countries. It is a serious concern to parents, health professionals and policy makers, particularly in relation to child health and subsequent adult life quality. ...
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A fractional order model for obesity epidemic in a non constant population
... for obesity is excessive food intake and lack of physical ...Therefore, obesity can be considered as socially ...the obesity epidemic in the ...considered obesity as an epidemic ...
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Social Distortion in Weight Perception: A Decomposition of the Obesity Epidemic
... Although obesity has, over the last two decades been a broad policy concern, the reasons for its long- lasting incidence are yet to be entirely unraveled (Cawley, 2015, Popkin, ...“obesity epidemic” ...
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The Obesity Epidemic and the Oncological Burden: an Australian Perspective.
... the obesity epidemic will contribute substantially towards the oncological burden both in Australia and ...the obesity epidemic are urgently ...of obesity should form an inherent part ...
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Obesity epidemic: the role of retailing sector in promoting fruit and vegetable consumption
... an epidemic of obesity (Lang and Heasman, ...addressing obesity is a priority on the policy ...“obesity epidemic”, including snack food, cars, television, fast food, computer use, ...
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Arkansas' Experience: Statewide Surveillance and Parental Information on the Child Obesity Epidemic
... childhood obesity epidemic. As in any epidemic, the strategies and tools used to combat the imminent threat are frequently based on scientific rationale and experience but applied in areas in which we ...
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OBESITY EPIDEMIC IN INDIA
... Currently, almost 1 in 5 men and over 1 in 6 women are overweight. In some urban areas, the rates are as high as 40%. Published in the Lancet on Thursday by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development ...
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The Role of States in Controlling the Obesity Epidemic, and a Personal Autonomy to Decide
... Such a prevention happens in a multidisciplinary way and involves wide aspects of Public Health Policies in developing countries, such as regulation of food legislations within the count[r] ...
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Stabilization of the obesity epidemic and increasing thinness in children in Caribbean Bonaire
... Analyses were performed with SPSS 22.0 (IBM®, New York, USA). Differences in BMI status (thinness, over- weight, obesity and morbid obesity) in 2015 compared to 2008 were tested with logistic regression. ...
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Has Blood Pressure Increased in Children in Response to the Obesity Epidemic?
... The associations between elevated blood pressure and overweight, on one hand, and the increasing prevalence over time of pediatric overweight, on the other hand, suggest that the prevalence of elevated blood pressure ...
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The epidemiological transition and the global childhood obesity epidemic
... girls, obesity was positively associated with income at lower levels of HDI and negatively associated with income at higher levels of HDI (Table 3 and Figure ...between obesity prevalence and HDI in both ...
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The Obesity Epidemic Is a Worldwide Phenomenon.pdf
... Although national nutrition surveys in China from 1982 to 1992 indicate a moderate rate of in- crease, this hides the more rapid shifts in diet, activity, and obesity seen in the las[r] ...
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A Reflection of Reality? The Consumption and Reproduction of Obesity Discourses by The Biggest Loser’s Viewers Through Facebook
... With the anonymity of the Internet and the plat- form of Facebook, users had the opportunity to question the status quo without direct judgment. Social media pro- vides a platform for users to share, reconfirm or ...
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Economic considerations for bariatric surgery and morbid obesity
... The obesity epidemic is also an economic ...which obesity affects declines in business output, employment, income, and tax revenues at the regional and national ...the obesity epidemic, ...
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Food Consumption Patterns, Physical Activity and Overweight and Obesity among Secondary School Students in Kwara State, Nigeria
... and obesity in adolescence (Muthuri et ...and obesity epidemic among adolescents in semi-urban and rural areas public secondary school especially in ...
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CHILDHOOD OBESITY: AN APPROCH TO DEVELOP A THERAPEUTIC STRATEGY WITH AYURVEDA .......
... Childhood obesity has reached to epidemic proportions in both developed as well as developing ...states. Obesity in childhood are associated with emergence of comorbidities including type 2 diabetes ...
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Neighborhood food environment and body mass index among Japanese older adults: results from the Aichi Gerontological Evaluation Study (AGES)
... Although promising, a number of empirical gaps remain in the neighborhood food environment hypoth- esis. First, the vast majority of the studies on the rela- tionship between food environment and obesity have been ...
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