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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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- Published
- Peer review status:
- Peer reviewed
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- Publisher:
- Elsevier Publisher's website
- Journal:
- Economics and Human Biology Journal website
- Volume:
- 5
- Issue:
- 3
- Pages:
- 443-457
- Publication date:
- 2007-12-01
- DOI:
- ISSN:
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1570-677X
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- English
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- ora:2991
- Deposit date:
- 2009-10-15
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- Elsevier B V
- Copyright date:
- 2007
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