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Predicting human adiposity – sometimes – with food insecurity: Broaden the model for better accuracy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2017

Sarah E. Hill ,
Randi P. Proffitt Leyva  and
Danielle J. DelPriore
Sarah E. Hill
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129s.e.hill@tcu.edur.proffittleyva@tcu.eduhttp://personal.tcu.edu/sehill/
Randi P. Proffitt Leyva
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Texas Christian University, Fort Worth, TX 76129s.e.hill@tcu.edur.proffittleyva@tcu.eduhttp://personal.tcu.edu/sehill/
Danielle J. DelPriore
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT 84112. d.delpriore@psych.utah.eduhttp://psych.utah.edu/people/postdoctoral-fellows/delpriore-danielle.php
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Abstract

The target article explores the role of food insecurity as a contemporary risk factor for human overweight and obesity. The authors provide conditional support for the insurance hypothesis among adult women from high-income countries. We consider the potential contribution of additional factors in producing variation in adiposity patterns between species and across human contexts.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e119
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2017 

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