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food insecurity-obesity paradox: a standalone construct

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Public health nutrition

the counterintuitive finding that food insecure women are more likely than food secure women to be overweight.

In public health nutrition, food insecurity-obesity paradox refers to the counterintuitive finding that food insecure women are more likely than food secure women to be overweight. This meaning comes from Townsend (2001) in The Journal of Nutrition.[1]

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Townsend, M. S., Peerson, J., Love, B., Achterberg, C., & Murphy, S. P. (2001). Food Insecurity Is Positively Related to Overweight in Women. The Journal of Nutrition, 131(6), 1738-1745. https://doi.org/10.1093/jn/131.6.1738

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