This paper investigates the effects of international trade in food on obesity in Mexico. We classify Mexican food imports from the U.S. into healthy and unhealthy and match these with anthropometric and food expenditure survey data. We find that exposure to imports of unhealthy foods significantly contributes to the rise of obesity in Mexico. The empirical evidence also suggests that unhealthy ...

OBJECTIVE Irish participation in the EU-supported DAta Food NEtworking (DAFNE) project required compliance with the overall aims and objectives. The Irish Household Budget Survey (HBS) expenditure data had to be transformed into a format compatible with the collaborative effort, by converting them into quantities of foodstuffs available per person per day. SETTING The Irish 1987 HBS expenditu...

Socioeconomic determinants are investigated for both the likelihood of consuming fastfood and household expenditure on fastfood using the 1994-98 USDA Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals. The logit model is used to estimate an empirical relationship between probability an individual will consume fastfood and socioeconomic variables. The Tobit model is used to estimate an empirical ...

This paper examines the life cycle profile of disaggregated nondurable expenditures for Chinese urban households. The result shows that aggregated expenditure conceals substantial heterogeneity in the life-cycle pattern of expenditure subcomponents and underestimates the uninsurable permanent income risk that households face. Based on the observed empirical pattern, I test how much of the adjus...

Dynamics of body weight and food intake can be studied by temporally perturbing food availability. This perturbation can be obtained by modifying the amount of available food over time while keeping the overall food quantity constant. To describe food intake dynamics, we developed a mathematical model that describes body weight, fat mass, fat-free mass, energy expenditure and food intake dynami...

BACKGROUND Errors in self-reported dietary intake threaten inferences from studies relying on instruments such as food-frequency questionnaires (FFQs), food records, and food recalls. OBJECTIVE The objective was to quantify the magnitude, direction, and predictors of errors associated with energy intakes estimated from the Women's Health Initiative FFQ. DESIGN Postmenopausal women (n = 102)...

Rafael, Johannes, and Andreas W. Herling. Leptin effect in ob/ob mice under thermoneutral conditions depends not necessarily on central satiation. Am. J. Physiol. Regulatory Integrative Comp. Physiol. 278: R790–R795, 2000.— Energy expenditure in ob/ob mice kept at thermoneutrality was quantified from food intake and body composition of mice treated with leptin over 15 and 75 days, respectively....

Iran has experienced high food prices in recent years. This paper examines the welfare impacts of rising major food groups' prices on Iranian urban households using Quadratic Almost Ideal Demand System (QUAIDS) approach. The elasticity coefficients derived from QUAIDS are used to estimate Compensated Variations (CV).The study uses Iranian Household Expenditure and Income Survey (HEIS) raw data,...