It is well documented that immigrants are in better health upon arrival in the United States than their American counterparts, but that this health advantage erodes over time. We study the potential determinants of this “healthy immigrant effect”, with a particular focus on the tendency of immigrants to converge to unhealthy American BMI levels. Using data from the National Health Interview Sur...

Abstract Background Food cost and affordability is one of the main barriers to improve nutritional quality diets population. However, in Argentina, where over 60% adults 40% children adolescents are overweight or obese, little known about difference healthier compared ordinary, less healthy ones. Methods We implemented “optimal approach” proposed by International Network for Obesity/non-communi...

We investigate the causal effect of retirement on health and cognitive abilities by exploiting the panel dimension of the first two waves of the Survey of Health Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) and the variation between and within European countries in old age retirement rules. We show evidence of substantial heterogeneity in the effect of retirement across occupational groups. In parti...

backgroundmalnutrition can threaten mental and physical development of children while healthy nutrition can improve mental and physical status of children. to select the best foods, children need nutrition education. this study aimed to determine the effect of nutrition education on reducing the consumption of unhealthy snacks in female primary school students in qom- iran.materials and methods...

In light of proposals to improve diets by shifting food prices, it is important to understand how price changes affect demand for various foods. We reviewed 160 studies on the price elasticity of demand for major food categories to assess mean elasticities by food category and variations in estimates by study design. Price elasticities for foods and nonalcoholic beverages ranged from 0.27 to 0....

This year three new books have been published about the progress made globally in research, policy, and actions to control tobacco smoking. In addition, Sir Richard Doll reported this year on 50 years of following British doctors to document the impact of smoking on their health. We have reviewed the evidence and approaches taken to control tobacco smoking, well described in these new texts, be...

Malnutrition is the condition that results from taking an unbalanced diet in which certain nutrients are lacking, in excess (too high an intake), or in the wrong proportions. A number of different nutrition disorders may arise, depending on which nutrients are under or overabundant in the diet. In most of the world, malnutrition is present in the form of undernutrition, which is caused by a die...