Factors Affecting Adolescent Obesity in Urban China
Food Security in a Food Abundant World
ISBN: 978-1-78560-215-3, eISBN: 978-1-78560-214-6
Publication date: 12 January 2016
Abstract
Purpose
This chapter analyzes which factors influence adolescent obesity by separating nutritional factors of the food consumed from socioeconomic and demographic variables.
Methodology/approach
A general linear equation is utilized to model the results empirically. A descriptive analysis is also utilized to determine which foods adolescents consume.
Findings
The empirical results found that food at home and food away from home and calories have a similar positive influence on obesity as measured by body mass index (BMI). The evidence shows that mothers have a greater influence on adolescents’ BMI than do fathers.
Practical implications
The results offer insight on what factors may be attributed to obesity in urban China.
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Acknowledgements
Acknowledgments
The Agricultural Food Research Initiative of the National Institute of Food and Agriculture/USDA (#2010-65400-20489); The Emerging Markets Program Agreement (#2010-27), Commodity Credit Corporation/USDA; National Natural Science Foundation of China (71003114; 70903009).
Citation
Anfinson, C., Wahl, T.I., Seale, J.L. and Bai, J. (2016), "Factors Affecting Adolescent Obesity in Urban China", Food Security in a Food Abundant World (Frontiers of Economics and Globalization, Vol. 16), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 105-114. https://doi.org/10.1108/S1574-871520150000016004
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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