Obesity is not just elevated adiposity, it is also a state of metabolic perturbation.

Jonathan Ck Wells

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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. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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The life history model of the insurance hypothesis.2017
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Implicit attitudes, eating behavior, and the development of obesity.2017
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A life-history theory perspective on obesity.2017
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Predicting human adiposity - sometimes - with food insecurity: Broaden the model for better accuracy.2017
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A game theory appraisal of the insurance hypothesis: Specific polymorphisms in the energy homeostasis network as imprints of a successful minimax strategy.2017
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Towards a behavioural ecology of obesity.2017
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Committed to the insurance hypothesis of obesity.2017
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"It's a bit more complicated than that": A broader perspective on determinants of obesity.2017
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Using food insecurity in health prevention to promote consumer's embodied self-regulation.2017

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Jonathan Ck WellsChildhood Nutrition Research Centre,UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health,London WC1N 1EH,United Kingdom.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nettle et al. miss the crucial difference between adaptive models of storing energy and explanations for the pathological metabolic state of obesity. I suggest that the association of food insecurity with obesity in women from industrialized settings is most likely due to reverse causation: Poverty reduces agency to resist obesogenic foods, and this scenario is compounded by perturbations of insulin metabolism stemming from high adiposity and lipogenic diets.

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AdiposityObesityFemaleFood SupplyHumansPoverty

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PMID29342588

DOI10.1017/S0140525X16001552

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