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This book investigates the controversial claim by welfare critics that public assistance programs like the Food Stamp and National School Lunch programs contribute to obesity among the poor. The author synthesizes empirical evidence from an array of disciplines--anthropology, economics, epidemiology, marketing, medicine, nutrition science, psychology, public health, sociology, and urban planning--to test this claim and to test whether other causal processes are at work. --From publisher's description.
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Obesity among poor Americans: is public assistance the problem?
2009, Vanderbilt University Press
in English
0826516351 9780826516350
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Table of Contents
Trends in obesity, poverty, and public assistance
The "welfare causes obesity" hypothesis
The "obesity causes welfare" hypothesis
The "poverty causes both welfare and obesity" hypothesis
The "factor X causes obesity and welfare" hypothesis
Common threads and conclusions.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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