Household-level financial uncertainty could be the primary driver of the global obesity epidemic
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- DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X16001539
Household-level financial uncertainty could be the primary driver of the global obesity epidemic
Abstract
Evidence has accumulated in support of the notion that changes in household-level financial uncertainty (or "economic insecurity") may be an important fundamental cause of the global obesity epidemic. The timing and spatial/demographic incidence of the obesity epidemic suggest that economic policies aimed at expanding economic freedom may have inadvertently shifted risk to households, thereby generating a costly public health problem.
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Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis.Behav Brain Sci. 2017 Jan;40:e105. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X16000947. Epub 2016 Jul 28. Behav Brain Sci. 2017. PMID: 27464638 Free PMC article.
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