Hugging and Chalking

This blog is about obesity and the inanity/insanity it spawns, the encroaching lawsuits and growing diet industry. Obesity is a matter of genes and personal responsibility. You can have an endocrine problem, or you can have a balance problem (too many calories and too little exercise). It’s not where you eat, but how much you eat; it’s not McDonald’s fault, or Mama’s fault, or Washington’s fault if your body is too fat or too thin. Rosabelle.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Russia in transition

Obesity is on the increase as Russia transitions to more freedom, a market economy, and choices. The calories seem to remain the same, but are coming from less healthy sources--alcohol, sweets, etc. The authors are from Iowa State University and University of Dublin, and guessing from their names, I'm guessing they are former citizens of the USSR.

Huffman, Sonya Kostova and Rizov, Marian, "The Rise of Obesity in Transition Economies: Theory and Evidence from the Russian Longitudinal Monitoring Survey" . Available at SSRN: http://ssrn.com/abstract=1106102

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