Criteria for definition of overweight in transition: background and recommendations for the United States.

By R. Kuczmarski, K. Flegal. American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, 2000

752 citations recorded by the source corpus.

How researchers see this paper

The researchers whose trusted networks rank it highest, strongest advocate first. Every researcher gets a different order.

The Relation of Childhood BMI to Adult Adiposity: The Bogalusa Heart Study (2005, background): “Of the 23 overweight 2- to 5-year-olds (8 boys and 15 girls), 83% (19) became obese adults, and 65% (15) became overfat adults.”
Bringing political economy into the debate on the obesity epidemic (2004, background): “It is encouraging that in Britain (Jebb, 1999), the United States (Flegal, 1999; Flegal and Troiana, 2000; Kuczmarski and Flegal, 2000), and Canada (Tremblay and Willms, 2000) leading researchers from the medical and nutritional sciences are arguing that we need to look at the environment of…”
Social dynamics of obesity (2007, positive): “weight standards into the utility function via various exogenous constructs: Lakdawalla and Philipson (2002) refer to an ‘‘ideal weight’’; Levy (2002) posits a ‘‘sociocultural weight norm’’; and CGS posit a social- and healthrelated cost of weight gain.”
Development and psychometric evaluation of a measure of intuitive eating. (2006, background): “The average BMI for the current sample was 23.50 (SD 3.90; range 17.47–34.94); this average score is within the normal range (i.e., 22–25) recommended for women (Kuczmarski & Flegal, 2000).”