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

Pool, Ursula orcid iconORCID: 0000-0002-3658-3346 (2019) Food security and obesity: Can passerine foraging behavior inform explanations for human weight gain? Behavioral and Brain Sciences, 42 (E9). ISSN 0140-525X

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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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