ArticleThe Behavioral and brain sciences2017
Future Research Directions for the Insurance Hypothesis regarding Food Insecurity and Obesity.
Article in The Behavioral and brain sciences, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.
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- Food insecurity promotes adiposity in mice.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Article
- Scarce and unpredictable, yet obesogenic: modeling the impact of food insecurity on adiposity in mice.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2025Article
- Objective and subjective socioeconomic status associated with metabolic syndrome severity among African American adults in Jackson Heart Study.Psychoneuroendocrinology · 2020Article
- A sweeping highlight of the literature examining social status, eating behavior, and obesity.Appetite · 2019Article
- Social Status and Adolescent Physical Activity: Expanding the Insurance Hypothesis to Incorporate Energy Expenditure.American journal of lifestyle medicineArticle
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This commentary discusses Nettle et al.'s "The Insurance Hypothesis" linking food insecurity to a high body mass index (BMI). Discussion about how the relationship between race/ethnicity and obesity in the United States is consistent with this hypothesis is presented. Potential ways forward to elucidate the validity of this hypothesis in humans through rigorous controlled trials is highlighted.
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