RT Journal
A1 Egger G, Granados J
T1 EConomic conditions and obesity
JF JAMA
JO JAMA
YR 2009
FD June 24
VO 301
IS 24
SP 2546
OP 2547
DO 10.1001/jama.2009.869
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.869
AB 
Counterintuitively, health indices from a number of countries since as far back as the 1920s have been shown to improve in economic downturns and decrease in booms.2 Obesity in particular is positively correlated with prosperity and decreases with economic downturns.2 This might be expected because of the link between obesity and consumption (eg, by increased eating of high energy–dense foods or increased use of effort-saving technology). Major decreases in fat consumption and obesity with unexpected associations with fewer deaths caused by cardiovascular disease and diabetes were observed in German-occupied countries during World War II and also in Cuba in the economic crisis of the early 1990s after the Soviet pull-out.3