Abstract
Overweight bodies will soon be the modal human form. In this special issue of American Journal of Human Biology, authors use varied approaches to examine the expansion of obesity globally, particularly what shape variability in people's vulnerability to weight gain and its negative effects. The contributions togerher highlight how complex pathways between biology and health related to excess weight are strongly mediatecd, at multiple levels, by both socio‐ecological context and life history. A systems approach, which can place human biological and biocultural variation iteratively within the broader contexts of developing and globalizing adiposity, will be a useful next step to informing effective prevention and intervention efforts. Am. J. Hum. Biol., 2012. © 2012 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.
| Authors: |
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Brewis, Alexandra A. |
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American Journal of Human Biology
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24 |
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3 |
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2012 |
| Pages: |
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258 |
| DOI: |
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10.1002/ajhb.22250 |
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01-05-2012 |