Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity and inequality
Among affluent countries, those with market-liberal welfare regimes (which are also English-speaking) tend to have the highest prevalence of obesity. The impact of cheap, accessible high-energy food is often invoked in explanation. An alternative approach is that overeating is a response to stress,...
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| description | Among affluent countries, those with market-liberal welfare regimes (which are also English-speaking) tend to have the highest prevalence of obesity. The impact of cheap, accessible high-energy food is often invoked in explanation. An alternative approach is that overeating is a response to stress, and that competition, uncertainty, and inequality make market-liberal societies more stressful. This ecological regression meta-study pools 96 body-weight surveys from 11 countries c. 1994–2004. The fast-food ‘shock’ impact is found to work most strongly in market-liberal countries. Economic insecurity, measured in several different ways, was almost twice as powerful, while the impact of inequality was weak, and went in the opposite direction. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:aa8a2d84-eed4-4807-a4f1-f45f855f44202022-03-27T03:15:46ZObesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity and inequalityJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:aa8a2d84-eed4-4807-a4f1-f45f855f4420Symplectic Elements at OxfordElsevier2010Offer, APechey, RUlijaszek, SAmong affluent countries, those with market-liberal welfare regimes (which are also English-speaking) tend to have the highest prevalence of obesity. The impact of cheap, accessible high-energy food is often invoked in explanation. An alternative approach is that overeating is a response to stress, and that competition, uncertainty, and inequality make market-liberal societies more stressful. This ecological regression meta-study pools 96 body-weight surveys from 11 countries c. 1994–2004. The fast-food ‘shock’ impact is found to work most strongly in market-liberal countries. Economic insecurity, measured in several different ways, was almost twice as powerful, while the impact of inequality was weak, and went in the opposite direction. |
| spellingShingle | Offer, A Pechey, R Ulijaszek, S Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity and inequality |
| title | Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity and inequality |
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| title_short | Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity and inequality |
| title_sort | obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes the effect of fast food insecurity and inequality |
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