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Predicting human adiposity – sometimes – with food insecurity: Broaden the model for better accuracy

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Abstract The target article explores the role of food insecurity as a contemporary risk factor for human overweight and obesity. The authors provide conditional support for the insurance hypothesis among… Click to show full abstract

Abstract The target article explores the role of food insecurity as a contemporary risk factor for human overweight and obesity. The authors provide conditional support for the insurance hypothesis among adult women from high-income countries. We consider the potential contribution of additional factors in producing variation in adiposity patterns between species and across human contexts.

Keywords: predicting human; food; food insecurity; human adiposity

Journal Title: Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Year Published: 2017

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