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Do lower real prices of sugar increase BMI and the likelihood of obesity in the US population?
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Do lower real prices of sugar increase BMI and the likelihood of obesity in the US population?
Economic factors, specifically lower real prices of sugar, are modeled to significantly contribute to the obesity epidemic in the US through myopic addictive food consumption behavior.
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Associates lower sugar prices with obesity risk; leaves open causal effects and policy impact in prospective studies.
Obesity is considered one of the largest public health problems in the United States today. The premise for our study is a body of results from medical research showing that sweetened foods, i.e., an increased consumption of sugars, leads first to sugar addiction and second to carbohydrate addiction and increased consumption of fats. The latter feature is actually responsible for the increase in body mass index (BMI), but the trigger that produces cravings for extra calories is sugar and sweeteners. Based on our results, a myopic model of addictive behavior in food consumption seems to capture the food consuming habits and related outbreak of obesity among the American population. Our results indicate that lower current and past real prices of sugar contribute significantly to higher values of BMI, and increase the likelihood of becoming obese in the United States.
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Miljković et al. (2008) conducted an observational in Obesity. Lower current and past real prices of sugar was evaluated on Body mass index (BMI) and likelihood of becoming obese.
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