Session 2: The Obesity Epidemic: Evidence and Hypotheses

Thursday, March 30 8:30 AM - 10:20 AM Emerald Bay Level 3

1.	Dynamics of the Global Nutrition Transition  •  Barry M. Popkin, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

2.	Obesity in the U.S.: Trends and Competing Explanations  •  Diane S. Lauderdale, University of Chicago

3.	Unequally Obese: Individual- and Area-Level Associations with Income  •  Virginia W. Chang, University of Pennsylvania

4.	WHO says Obesity is an Epidemic? How Excess Weight Became a Public Health Crisis  •  Hanna Grol-Prokopczyk, University of Wisconsin at Madison

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