From "overweight" to "about Right": Evidence of a Generational Shift in Body Weight Norms

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1226-1234

  Burke, Mary A ^a   Heiland, Frank W ^b,c   Nadler, Carl M ^a  

^a FEDERAL RESERVE BANK OF BOSTON   (United States)

^b CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^c FLORIDA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ADULT DISEASE; AGE; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILDHOOD OBESITY; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PROBABILITY; SELF CONCEPT; SEX DIFFERENCE; UNDERWEIGHT; UNITED STATES; BODY WEIGHT; EPIDEMIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORPHOMETRICS; OVERWEIGHT; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIAL CHANGE; STANDARDS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; STATISTICS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHTS AND MEASURES; COHORT EFFECT; FEMALE; HUMANS; IDEAL BODY WEIGHT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PERCEPTION; SELF CONCEPT; SOCIAL CHANGE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77952953703     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.369     Document Type: Article

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