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Greater Food Insecurity Leads To Greater Obesity.
2001 JUL 12 - (NewsRx Network) -- by N.R. Salmarsh, staff medical writer - Researchers have established a paradoxical relationship between food insecurity - the lack of reliable access to food - and obesity m women.
The less food security women had, the more likely they were to be obese, reported M.S. Townsend and colleagues at the University of California.
The purpose of their study was to examine the relationship between food insecurity and overweight as measured by body mass index (BMI) using data from the nationally representative 1994-1996 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by Individuals (CSFII), said Townsend and coworkers.
They found that the expected relationship between food access and weight did not materialize. Food insecurity was related to overweight status (BMI [greater than]27.3 kg/[m.sup.2] for women and [greater than]27.8 kg/[m.sup.2] for men) for women (n=4,509) but not for men (n=4,970).
Indeed, the greater the food insecurity, the greater the overweight prevalence among these women, the researchers noted. Thirty-four percent of the 3,447 food-secure women were overweight compared with 41% of the 966 mildly food-insecure women and 52% of the 86 moderately food-insecure women. The 11 women who were severely food insecure were excluded from the findings.
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