Food insecurity as a driver of obesity in humans: The insurance hypothesis

Trends in adult body-mass index in 200 countries from 1975 to 2014: a pooled analysis of 1698 population-based measurement studies with 19·2 million participants

(2016)   LANCET

Time orientation and eating behavior: Unhealthy eaters consider immediate consequences, while healthy eaters focus on future health

(2015) Fania C.M. Dassen et al.   APPETITE

Early life disadvantage strengthens flight performance trade-offs in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris

(2015) Daniel O'Hagan et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Early life adversity increases foraging and information gathering in European starlings, Sturnus vulgaris

(2015) Clare Andrews et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

Adaptive explanations for sensitive windows in development

(2015) Tim W Fawcett et al.   Frontiers in Zoology

Genetic studies of body mass index yield new insights for obesity biology

(2015) Adam E. Locke et al.   NATURE

Costs of Foraging Predispose Animals to Obesity-Related Mortality when Food Is Constantly Abundant

(2015) John M. McNamara et al.   PLoS One

Cyanobacteria as biological drivers of lake nitrogen and phosphorus cycling

(2015) Kathryn L. Cottingham et al.   Ecosphere

The memory of hunger: developmental plasticity of dietary selectivity in the European starling, Sturnus vulgaris

(2014) Louise Bloxham et al.   ANIMAL BEHAVIOUR

The starvation–predation trade-off shapes the strategic use of protein for energy during fasting

(2014) Andrew D. Higginson et al.   JOURNAL OF THEORETICAL BIOLOGY

Family History of Education Predicts Eating Disorders across Multiple Generations among 2 Million Swedish Males and Females

(2014) Anna Goodman et al.   PLoS One

Resistance to treatment and change in anorexia nervosa: a clinical overview

(2013) Giovanni Abbate-Daga et al.   BMC Psychiatry

The Starvation-Predation Trade-Off Predicts Trends in Body Size, Muscularity, and Adiposity between and within Taxa

(2012) Andrew D. Higginson et al.   AMERICAN NATURALIST

Neuropsychological weaknesses in anorexia nervosa: Set-shifting, central coherence, and decision making in currently ill and recovered women

(2012) Unna N. Danner et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF EATING DISORDERS

Evolution and the psychology of intergroup conflict: the male warrior hypothesis

(2012) M. M. McDonald et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Unraveling the Paradox of Concurrent Food Insecurity and Obesity

(2011) Patricia B. Crawford et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

Food Insecurity and Weight Status Among U.S. Children and Families

(2011) Nicole I. Larson et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PREVENTIVE MEDICINE

The Economics of Food Insecurity in the United States

(2011) C. Gundersen et al.   Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy

Household food insecurity and childhood overweight in Jamaica and Québec: a gender-based analysis

(2011) Lise Dubois et al.   BMC PUBLIC HEALTH

Does dieting make you fat? A twin study

(2011) K H Pietiläinen et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Health and economic burden of the projected obesity trends in the USA and the UK

(2011) Y Claire Wang et al.   LANCET

Is food insecurity related to overweight and obesity in children and adolescents? A summary of studies, 1995-2009

(2011) J. C. Eisenmann et al.   Obesity Reviews

Elucidation of thrifty features in adult rats exposed to protein restriction during gestation and lactation

(2011) Rani J. Qasem et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Balancing sampling and specialization: an adaptationist model of incremental development

(2011) W. E. Frankenhuis et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Starvation physiology: Reviewing the different strategies animals use to survive a common challenge

(2010) Marshall D. McCue   COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY A-MOLECULAR & INTEGRATIVE PHYSIOLOGY

Obesity under affluence varies by welfare regimes: The effect of fast food, insecurity, and inequality

(2010) Avner Offer et al.   Economics & Human Biology

Linking psychosocial stressors and childhood obesity

(2010) C. Gundersen et al.   Obesity Reviews

Food Insecurity Is Not Associated with Childhood Obesity as Assessed Using Multiple Measures of Obesity

(2009) Craig Gundersen et al.   JOURNAL OF NUTRITION

Mild Calorie Restriction Induces Fat Accumulation in Female C57BL/6J Mice

(2009) Xingsheng Li et al.   Obesity

Early trauma and adult obesity: Is psychological dysfunction the mediating mechanism?

(2009) Alberto D'Argenio et al.   PHYSIOLOGY & BEHAVIOR

Violence from parents in childhood and obesity in adulthood: Using food in response to stress as a mediator of risk

(2009) Emily A. Greenfield et al.   SOCIAL SCIENCE & MEDICINE

Obese women show greater delay discounting than healthy-weight women

(2008) Rosalyn E. Weller et al.   APPETITE

Thrifty genes for obesity, an attractive but flawed idea and an alternative perspective: the ‘drifty gene’ hypothesis

(2008) J R Speakman   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OBESITY

Neighborhoods and obesity

(2008) Jennifer L Black et al.   NUTRITION REVIEWS

Will All Americans Become Overweight or Obese? Estimating the Progression and Cost of the US Obesity Epidemic

(2008) Youfa Wang et al.   Obesity