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Frameworks of population obesity and the use of cultural consensus modeling in the study of environments contributing to obesity

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Obesity in Eastern Europe has been linked to privilege and status prior to the collapse of communism, and to exposure to free-market economics after it. Neither formulation is a complete explanation, and it is useful to examine the potential value of other models of population obesity for the understanding of this phenomenon. These include those of: thrifty genotypes; obesogenic behaviour; obesogenic environments; nutrition transition; obesogenic culture; and biocultural interaction of geneti...

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
SSD
Department:
SAME
Sub department:
Social & Cultural Anthropology
Research group:
Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity
Role:
Author
Publisher:
Elsevier Publisher's website
Journal:
Economics and Human Biology Journal website
Volume:
5
Issue:
3
Pages:
443-457
Publication date:
2007-12-01
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ISSN:
1570-677X
Language:
English
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Local pid:
ora:2991
Deposit date:
2009-10-15

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