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Food insecurity as a cause of adiposity: evolutionary and mechanistic hypotheses
Food insecurity (FI) is associated with obesity among women in high-income countries. This seemingly paradoxical association can be explained by the insurance hypothesis, which states that humans possess evolved mechanisms that increase fat storage to buffer against energy shortfall when access to f...
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| Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
| Lenguaje: | English |
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The Royal Society
2023
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| Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10475876/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37661744 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2022.0228 |