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Food security and obesity: Can passerine foraging behavior inform explanations for human weight gain?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 March 2019

Ursula Pool
Ursula Pool*
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Healthy & Sustainable Settings Unit, Faculty of Health & Wellbeing, University of Central Lancashire, Westlakes Campus, Cumbria CA24 3JZ, UK. upool1@uclan.ac.uk
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Abstract

Commonly used measures of human food insecurity differ categorically from measures determining food security in other species. In addition, human foraging behaviors may have arisen in a divergent evolutionary context from nonhuman foraging. Hence, a theoretical framework based on food insecurity and fat storage in nonhumans may not be appropriate for explaining associations between human food insecurity and obesity.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 42 , 2019 , e49
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