Perspective: Some Causal and Priority Language about Food Energy Supply as the Sufficient Cause of the Obesity Pandemic is Premature or Incorrect

Abstract

Several obesity experts have claimed the growth in food supply after 1965 was the primary cause of the global obesity pandemic based on ecologic data. Using public access global data we explored per capita food supply and two metabolic diseases (i.e., obesity and raised fasting glucose). We also compared overweight military service members who were semi-randomly assigned to countries with variable food supply and observed obesity outcomes for 7 years. Among countries with 2008 food supply above the United States in 1965 (2,926 kcal per capita per day), higher national supply was paradoxically associated with lower prevalence of raised fasting glucose (e.g., r = -0.42, p 0.001).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 09, 2016
Accession Number
AD1023769

Entities

People

  • Jameson D Voss
  • Leslie L. Clark
  • Stefani A. Ruiz

Organizations

  • United States Air Force School of Aerospace Medicine

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Air Force
  • Air Force Research Laboratories
  • Body Weight
  • Diseases And Disorders
  • Government Procurement
  • Governments
  • Health
  • Health Care
  • Health Services
  • Information Science
  • Language
  • Metabolic Diseases
  • Overweight
  • Public Health
  • Regression Analysis
  • South Korea
  • United States

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