Wells, JCK;
              
      
        
        
  
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  Obesity is not just elevated adiposity, it is also a state of metabolic perturbation.
Behavioral and Brain Sciences
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    Abstract
    Nettle et al. miss the crucial difference between adaptive models of storing energy and explanations for the pathological metabolic state of obesity. I suggest that the association of food insecurity with obesity in women from industrialized settings is most likely due to reverse causation: Poverty reduces agency to resist obesogenic foods, and this scenario is compounded by perturbations of insulin metabolism stemming from high adiposity and lipogenic diets.
  
  
    
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          | Title: | 
          Obesity is not just elevated adiposity, it is also a state of metabolic perturbation | 
        
      
    
      
    
      
    
      
    
      
    
      
    
      
    
      
        
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          An open access version is available from UCL Discovery | 
        
      
    
      
        
          | DOI: | 
          10.1017/S0140525X16001552 | 
        
      
    
      
        
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          http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/S0140525X16001552 | 
        
      
    
      
        
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          English | 
        
      
    
      
        
          | Additional information: | 
          This version is the author accepted manuscript. For information on re-use, please refer to the publisher’s terms and conditions. | 
        
      
    
      
        
          | Keywords: | 
          Social Sciences, Science & Technology, Life Sciences & Biomedicine, Psychology, Biological, Behavioral Sciences, Neurosciences, Psychology, Neurosciences & Neurology | 
        
      
    
      
        
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          UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > School of Life and Medical Sciences > Faculty of Population Health Sciences > UCL GOS Institute of Child Health > Population, Policy and Practice Dept | 
        
      
    
    
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      https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10049473 | 
    
  
  
  
  
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