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- Title
STRUCTURED PSYCHOSOCIAL STRESS AND THE US OBESITY EPIDEMIC.
- Authors
WALLACE, RODRICK; WALLACE, DEBORAH N.
- Abstract
We examine the accelerating "obesity epidemic" in the US from the perspective of generalized language-of-thought arguments relating a cognitive hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis to an embedding context of structured psychosocial stress. From a rate distortion perspective, the obesity epidemic is an image of ratcheting social pathology — indexed by massive, policy-driven, deurbanization and deindustrialization — impressed upon the bodies of American adults and children. The resulting pattern of developmental disorder, while stratified by expected divisions of class and ethnicity, is nonetheless relentlessly engulfing even affluent majority populations.
- Subjects
UNITED States; OBESITY; BODY weight; METABOLIC disorders; EPIDEMICS; COMMUNICABLE diseases; HYPOTHALAMIC-pituitary-adrenal axis; NEUROENDOCRINOLOGY; ADRENAL cortex
- Publication
Journal of Biological Systems, 2005, Vol 13, Issue 4, p363
- ISSN
0218-3390
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1142/S0218339005001574