Food insecurity (FI) is associated with obesity among women in high-income countries. This
seemingly paradoxical association can be explained by the insurance hypothesis, which …

Food insecurity is paradoxically associated with obesity in the United States. Current
hypotheses to explain this phenomenon are descriptive regarding the low food security …

Integrative explanations of why obesity is more prevalent in some sectors of the human
population than others are lacking. Here, we outline and evaluate one candidate …

Food insecurity is associated with high body weight for women but not men in affluent
Western societies. However, it is not currently known what behavioural or psychological …

Household food insecurity has been previously hypothesized to promote dependence on
inexpensive, highly palatable foods that are energy dense. Such dependence, and the …

Food insecurity is associated with high body weight amongst women, but not men, in high‐
income countries. Previous research using food recalls suggests that the total energy intake …

Many people struggle to control their food intake and bodyweight. This is often interpreted as
evidence that humans are generally predisposed to consume food when it is available …

Objective: Using data from the 2007–2008 continuous National Health Nutrition Examination
Survey NHANES, this study conducted gender-specific analyses to examine the influence of …

Obesity is considered a 21st-century epidemic and it is a metabolic risk factor for Non-
Communicable Diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, type 2 diabetes, metabolic …

'Why are we losing the war against obesity and chronic disease?'This is the simple question
Peter Gluckman and Mark Hanson ask, exploring the dominant myth that the exploding …