Household Food Insecurity, Hair Cortisol, and Adiposity Among Tsimane' Hunter-Forager-Horticulturalists in Bolivia.
Hilary J BethancourtMatthew A UlrichDavid M AlmeidaAsher Y RosingerPublished in: Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) (2021)
These findings from a remote, small-scale population suggest that positive associations between HFI and adiposity are not isolated to contexts of industrialized food environments and heavy reliance on processed foods. However, these dynamics and the role of stress appear to differ by sex and age group.