TY  - CHAP
AB  - This paper presents a behavioral economics model with bounded rationality to describe an individual's food consumption choices that lead to weight gain and dieting. Using a physiological relationship determining calories needed to maintain weight, we simulate the food consumption choices of a representative female over a 30-year period. Results show an individual will periodically choose to diet, but that diet will reduce weight only temporarily. Recurrence of weight gain leads to cyclical dieting, which reduces the trend rate of weight increase. Dieting frequency is shown to depend on decision period length, dieting costs, and habit persistence.
VL  - 17
SN  - 978-1-84950-482-9, 978-0-7623-1406-5/0731-2199
DO  - 10.1016/S0731-2199(06)17003-X
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0731-2199(06)17003-X
AU  - Suranovic Steven M.
AU  - Goldfarb Robert S.
ED  - Kristian Bolin
ED  - John Cawley
PY  - 2006
Y1  - 2006/01/01
TI  - A Behavioral Model of Cyclical Dieting
T2  - The Economics of Obesity
T3  - Advances in Health Economics and Health Services Research
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 49
EP  - 78
Y2  - 2024/04/25
ER  -