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Opinion
Published
11/21/08
Childhood obesity grew steadily from the 1980s until it leveled off recently. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that about a third of American kids are overweight or obese. Find Us On Facebook
Why? Fingers have been pointed in many directions - to the rise of video games and computers as sedentary forms of recreation, to cutbacks in school physical education programs, and to lack of instruction on nutrition. Three college researchers, in a study being published this month in The Journal of Law and Economics, provide at least some evidence pointing to another of the usual suspects: the barrage of fast-food...
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