Cross-national comparison of childhood obesity: the epidemic and the relationship between obesity and socioeconomic status.

By Youfa Wang. International Journal of Epidemiology, 2001

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Childhood overweight, obesity, and the metabolic syndrome in developing countries. (2007, unknown): “However, large differences exist between different parts of China; in a study of children aged 9–16 years in Dalian, 22.9 percent of boys and 10.4 percent of girls were overweight, which was a higher prevalence than that indicated in Chinese national surveys of recent decades (60).”
The obesity epidemic in the United States--gender, age, socioeconomic, racial/ethnic, and geographic characteristics: a systematic review and meta-regression analysis. (2007, methodology): “Our previous research based on the NHANES III data shows that the rural-urban differences are small, and they vary across age groups (16, 59).”
Spatial decoupling of agricultural production and consumption: quantifying dependences of countries on food imports due to domestic land and water constraints (2013, background): “However most people do not eat what they nutritionally need; quantity and type of consumption is linked to culture, income, socioeconomic conditions, fashions and other factors (e.g. Wang 2001, Hesse-Biber et al 2006).”