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How can we combat the explosion of obesity, which represents a health and financial burden?

2024-02-18T06:31:30.366Z

Highlights: Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh, economics professor and researcher in the United States, sheds light on the additional cost of being overweight, which concerns 47% of French people. She is convinced that adequate public policies can help curb the consequences of obesity. Global obesity has tripled in forty years, and no continent is spared. In the collective imagination, the U.S. has become the face of this scourge: in fact, 73% of the American population is overweight... This article is reserved for subscribers. You have 90% left to discover.


DECRYPTION - Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh, economics professor and researcher in the United States, sheds light on the additional cost of being overweight, which concerns 47% of French people.


She is a seasoned specialist in tax reforms and their effects on individual behavior and on a macroeconomic scale.

With an essay entitled

Economics of Obesity

(Éditions La Découverte), this professor and researcher based in the United States for twenty years (University of Vermont) wanted to engage with a major subject across the Atlantic and one of growing importance in France.

Thus, his research gradually shifted towards “reforms that use taxation to respond to the challenges raised by this health issue.”

Because Nathalie Mathieu-Bolh is convinced that adequate public policies can help curb the consequences of obesity.

A reflection that she shares here in seven key themes.

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A global scourge

Global obesity has tripled in forty years, and no continent is spared.

But in the collective imagination, the United States has become the face of this scourge: in fact, 73% of the American population is overweight...

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