 Costa Font et al (2010):

- To shed additional light on ….

- … is a meaningful exercise as…
- From a methodological standpoint, this paper contains some novelties in that
it performed a non-linear decomposition…
- This general picture remains unaltered, once our definition….
- These results bring to the fore the importance of …
- This feature parallels the increasing globalisation and modernisation …
 Costa Font and Gil (2008):
- Obesity stands as one of the major health risks…
- The scenario is even more worrying if we bear in mind that …
- As a clear-cut evidence of …
- The data unambiguously reveal that …
- To do so, we have empirically scrutinised…
- In the light of our evidence, we can conclude that …
- Another caveat worth mentioning refers to …
 Ulijaszek and Schwkendiek (2013):
- This is in accord with …
 Costa Font and Gil (2008):
- In the light of our findings we can suggest that …
- Interestingly, our results highlight that…
- Arguably, these effects suggest that …
- Our results should be interpreted with some caution since …
- One may cast some doubts on the relationship between …
 Kan and Tsai (2004):
- BMI is not a monotonic indicator of healthiness (too high or too low a BMI
level is not ideal for health)
 Lopez (2004):
Obesity is a health problem that rivals smoking in importance