Structured psychosocial stress and the US obesity epidemic

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dc.creatorWallace, Rodrick
dc.creatorWallace, Deborah N.
dc.date2003-12-08
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T05:58:02Z
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dc.descriptionWe 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.
dc.description12 pages, 6 figures
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0312011
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0312011
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/88212
dc.subjectNeurons and Cognition
dc.subjectQuantitative Methods
dc.titleStructured psychosocial stress and the US obesity epidemic
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