Most adults are overweight or obese in many western countries. Several population‐level
interventions on the physical, economical, political, or sociocultural environment have thus …

Two thirds of American adults are now obese or overweight, and this proportion continues to
increase. Primary care doctors are placed at the front lines in addressing the obesity …

A novel framework for modelling trends in obesity is presented. The framework, integrating
both Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCMs) and social networks, is applied to the problem of obesity …

Integrating data and models is an important and still challenging goal in science.
Computational modeling has been taught for decades and regularly revised, for example in …

Managing obesity is a difficult and pressing problem given its detrimental health effects and
associated healthcare costs. This difficulty stems from obesity being the result of a complex …

People struggle to implement interventions that create a significant and sustainable weight
loss. This suggests that we need to move beyond viewing obesity as a mere matter of diet …

Abstract In Modeling & Simulation, a model must be fit for purpose. In the case of models for
social simulations, it means that we must adequately capture the mechanisms of human …