Soda Bans, Bike Lanes: Which 'natural Experiments' Really Reduce Obesity?

Friday, March 27, 2015 - 01:40 in Mathematics & Economics

Banning sodas from school vending machines, building walking paths and playgrounds, adding supermarkets to food deserts and requiring nutritional labels on restaurant menus: Such changes to the environments where people live and work are among the growing number of solutions that have been proposed and attempted in efforts to stem the rising obesity epidemic with viable, population-based solutions. But which of these changes actually make an impact? read more

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