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. 2017 Jan:40:e113.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16001382.

Episodic memory as an explanation for the insurance hypothesis in obesity

Kirsty Mary Davies  1 , Lucy Gaia Cheke  1 , Nicola Susan Clayton  1
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Episodic memory as an explanation for the insurance hypothesis in obesity

Kirsty Mary Davies et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

In evaluating the insurance hypothesis as an explanation for obesity, we propose one missing piece of the puzzle. Our suggested explanation for why individuals report food insecurity is that an individual may have an impaired episodic ability to plan for the future.

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