Doi Moi, or eat first, talk later

Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children under Doi Moi

By international standards, and especially given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions in, and low levels of, infant and under-five mortality. We review existing evidence and provide some new evidence bearing on the question of whether under the economic liberalization program known as Doi Moi this reduction in child mortality has been sustained. We c...

The role of education in post doi moi Vietnam

Eat dessert first.

Eat to Live or Live to Eat?

Life in most of the world’s urban societies is increasingly sedentary. People neither toil in the fields nor hunt for food. With little need for mobility, there’s easy access to plenty of food that is loaded with sugar, fat, preservatives, and calories. The so-called ‘‘western diet’’ has brought with it a host of metabolic problems that we have probably never encountered in our evolutionary his...

Eat Now or Later: Self-Control as an Overlapping Cognitive Mechanism of Depression and Obesity

While overlapping neurobiological mechanisms are known, relatively little is known about how "self-control" and cognitive affective processing of rewards may also influence the bi-directional risk between obesity and depression. The objective of this study was to identify the extent to which "self-control," measured using a delay discounting task is co-related to BMI and Depression diagnostic t...