An international multi-center study has revealed how diet plays a greater role in the prevalence of obesity globally than was previously understood, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
An international multi-center study has revealed how diet plays a greater role in the prevalence of obesity globally than was previously understood, according to findings published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
“The differences in daily energy expenditure between folks in the industrialized world and subsistence populations are not as great as we might have expected, whereas the shifts in diets that we’re seeing with populations that are moving from a subsistence life way into a market-oriented way of life are much, much greater,” said William Leonard, PhD, professor of Preventive Medicine in the Division of Behavioral Medicine and the Watkins Family Professor of Global Health in the Weinberg College of Art and Sciences, who was a co-author of the study.
Global economic development has been associated with an increase in obesity globally, which accounts for more than 4 million deaths worldwide each year, according to recent reports.
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Herbaria hold many samples of the same plant species taken from different areas and times. From left to right: California poppy specimen collected in 1916 in Corvallis, Oregon; specimen collected in 1958 in Corvallis; sample collected in 2003 in Lassen County, California. The Oregon specimens are housed at the Oregon State University Herbarium, and the California sample at Chico State Herbarium. (Photo Credit: California Consortium of Herbaria)
