Journal article
Expanding the insurance hypothesis of obesity with physiological cues
The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.40, pp.e108-e108
2017
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/114899
PMID: 29342570
Abstract
Food insecurity relates to fat storage, but cannot explain fat storage in excess of levels optimal for buffering – that is, obesity. However, factors related to food unpredictability in the past, including stress, disease, micronutrient content of food, and physical activity, may cue physiological processes that change intake or fat deposition even in the absence of actual food unpredictability.
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- Title
- Expanding the insurance hypothesis of obesity with physiological cues
- Creators
- Aaron D Blackwell - Department of Anthropology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106-3210. blackwell@anth.ucsb.edu www.anth.ucsb.edu/faculty/blackwell
- Publication Details
- The Behavioral and brain sciences, Vol.40, pp.e108-e108
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press; New York, USA
- Number of pages
- 2
- Identifiers
- 99900547838401842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article