Poverty and Obesity - Term Paper.
Although much research has been done to discern whether food insecurity is causally related to the obesity epidemic, the evidence to date is mixed. To address a pressing need for greater conceptual clarity regarding these urgent public health problems, our article summarizes findings from research examining the association between obesity and food insecurity in the United States and describes.
Obesity is a major public health problem, both internationally and within the UK. Being overweight or obese is associated with an increased risk of a number of common diseases and causes of premature death, including diabetes, cardiovascular disease and some cancers. The risk of poor health is strongly correlated with body mass index (BMI).
Adam Drewnowski, PhD, was supported by USDA grant CSREES 2004-35215-14441 on Poverty and Obesity: the role of energy density and cost of diets and by the Nutrient Rich Coalition. Petra Eichelsdoerfer, ND, MS, RPh, was supported by NCCAM grant 2 T32AT000815.
It’s poverty, not individual choice, that is driving extraordinary obesity levels The statistics point remorselessly towards obesity being a symptom with an underlying social cause.
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Abstract This paper investigates the effect of income- and wealth-based poverty on the probability of being obese for the elderly in Europe by analysing data drawn from the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) and the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA). We use early-life economic conditions and regional circumstances as instruments for poverty later in life to account for.