Obesity Bibliography

• Anderson, Patricia M., Kristin F. Butcher, and Diane Whitmore Schanzenbach. “Childhood Disadvantage and Obesity: Is Nurture Trumping Nature?.” National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series No. 13479 (October 2007). http://www.nber.org/papers/w13479.

• van Baal, Pieter H. M., Johan J. Polder, G. Ardine de Wit, Rudolf T. Hoogenveen, Talitha L. Feenstra, Hendriek C. Boshuizen, et al. “Lifetime Medical Costs of Obesity: Prevention No Cure for Increasing Health Expenditure.” PLoS Medicine 5, no. 2 (February 1, 2008): e29 EP -.

• Committee on Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity. Progress in Preventing Childhood Obesity: How Do We Measure Up? Institute of Medicine, 2007. http://books.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11722.

• Just, David R., Lisa Mancino, and Brian Wansink. Could Behavioral Economics Help Improve Diet Quality for Nutrition Assistance Program Participants? United States Department of Agriculture Economic Research Service, June 2007. http://www.ers.usda.gov/Publications/ERR43/.

• Koplan, Jeffrey P., Catharyn T. Liverman, and Vivica A. Kraak. Preventing Childhood Obesity: Health in the Balance. Institute of Medicine, 2005. http://www.nap.edu/catalog.php?record_id=11015.

• O'Dea, Jennifer A. “Prevention of child obesity: 'First, do no harm'.” Health Educ. Res. 20, no. 2 (April 1, 2005): 259-265.

• Saguy, Abigail C., and Kevin W. Riley. “Weighing Both Sides: Morality, Mortality, and Framing Contests over Obesity.” Journal of Health Politics Policy and Law 30, no. 5 (October 1, 2005): 869-923.