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Obesity as self-regulation failure: A “disease of affluence” that selectively hits the less affluent?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2017

Pier Luigi Sacco
Pier Luigi Sacco*
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Department of Humanities, IULM University Milan, 20143 Milan, Italy pierluigi.sacco@iulm.it metaLAB (at) Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02138 pierluigi@metalab.harvard.edu Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138. pierluigi_sacco@fas.harvard.edu
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Abstract

An effect of the long-term cycle of industrial and post-industrial global development is the increasingly generalized access to abundant and diversified food sources. This poses a substantial problem of self-regulation that mainly affects the less affluent and whose failures may play an important role in the explanation of the increasing social incidence of overweight and obesity problems.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 40 , 2017 , e127
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