Replicating the income related reversal of fatness
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Ecology of Food and Nutrition
- Vol. 10 (4) , 237-239
- https://doi.org/10.1080/03670244.1981.9990644
Abstract
As shown in three large‐scale surveys (the Ten State Nutrition Survey, the Tecumseh Community Health Survey and the National Health and Nutrition Examinations), the socioeconomic “reversal” of fatness in the female is a remarkably consistent phenomenon. In all three studies, low‐income girls were leaner and high income girls were fatter until adolescence. Thereafter, low income women tended to exceed high income women in both subscapular and triceps fatness by as much as 25 to 33 percent.Keywords
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