TY  - JOUR
T1  - EConomic conditions and obesity
AU  - Egger G, Granados J
Y1  - 2009/06/24
N1  - 10.1001/jama.2009.869
JO  - JAMA
SP  - 2546
EP  - 2547
VL  - 301
IS  - 24
N2  - 
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

SN  - 0098-7484
M3  - doi: 10.1001/jama.2009.869
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.2009.869
ER  -