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. 2017 Jan:40:e120.
doi: 10.1017/S0140525X1600145X.

Anti-fat discrimination in marriage more clearly explains the poverty-obesity paradox

Daniel J Hruschka  1 , Seung-Yong Han  1
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Anti-fat discrimination in marriage more clearly explains the poverty-obesity paradox

Daniel J Hruschka et al. Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan.

Abstract

The target article proposes the insurance hypothesis as an explanation for higher levels of obesity among food-insecure women living in high-income countries. An alternative hypothesis based on anti-fat discrimination in marriage can also account for such correlations between poverty and obesity and is more consistent with finer-grained analyses by marital status, gender, and age.

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