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The social origins of obesity within and across generations
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- Hemmingsson, Erik (author)
- Gymnastik- och idrottshögskolan,Institutionen för fysisk aktivitet och hälsa
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- Nowicka, Paulina, 1974- (author)
- Uppsala universitet,Institutionen för kostvetenskap,Department of Food Studies, Nutrition, and Dietetics, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
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- Ulijaszek, Stanley (author)
- Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
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- Sørensen, Thorkild I A (author)
- Department of Public Health and Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Basic Metabolic Research, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences, University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark.
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- 2022-11-02
- 2023
- English.
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In: Obesity Reviews. - : John Wiley & Sons. - 1467-7881 .- 1467-789X. ; 24:1
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- We propose a model for obesity development that traces a considerable part of its origins to the social domain (mainly different forms of prolonged social adversity), both within and across generations, working in tandem with a genetic predisposition. To facilitate overview of social pathways, we place particular focus on three areas that form a cascading sequence: (A) social adversity within the family (parents having a low education, a low social position, poverty and financial insecurity; offspring being exposed to gestational stress, unmet social and emotional needs, abuse, maltreatment and other negative life events, social deprivation and relationship discord); (B) increasing levels of insecurity, negative emotions, chronic stress, and a disruption of energy homeostasis; and (C) weight gain and obesity, eliciting further social stress and weight stigma in both generations. Social adversity, when combined with genetic predisposition, thereby substantially contributes to highly effective transmission of obesity from parents to offspring, as well as to obesity development within current generations. Prevention efforts may benefit from mitigating multiple types of social adversity in individuals, families, and communities, notably poverty and financial strain, and by improving education levels.
Subject headings
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences (hsv//eng)
- MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP -- Hälsovetenskap -- Folkhälsovetenskap, global hälsa, socialmedicin och epidemiologi (hsv//swe)
- MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES -- Health Sciences -- Public Health, Global Health, Social Medicine and Epidemiology (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- chronic stress
- genetics
- social adversity
- social transmission
- weight stigma
- Kostvetenskap
- Food, Nutrition and Dietetics
- Medicin/Teknik
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