http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/04/04/culture-and-inequality-in-the-obesity-debate/ For a greater understanding of the encultured brain and body... Mon, 06 Feb 2012 11:12:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/04/04/culture-and-inequality-in-the-obesity-debate/#comment-14304 Mon, 23 Aug 2010 11:19:02 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-14304 [...] Culture and Inequality in the Obesity Debate [...]

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/04/04/culture-and-inequality-in-the-obesity-debate/#comment-4989 Tue, 03 Mar 2009 10:10:36 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-4989 [...] are burning (can we say, comfort food!). It also does not address the context of eating – of how culture and inequality shape eating and individual lives. Here is where I found the accompanying New England Journal of Medicine [...]

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/04/04/culture-and-inequality-in-the-obesity-debate/#comment-2604 Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:54:41 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-2604 [...] plenty of posts on this area, such as Poverty Poisons the Brain, Addiction and Our Faultlines, and Culture and Inequality in the Obesity Debate (as long as you supplement that with Comfort Food and Social Stress). But a lot of this style of [...]

]]> http://neuroanthropology.net/2008/04/04/culture-and-inequality-in-the-obesity-debate/#comment-1714 Tue, 20 May 2008 13:43:53 +0000 http://neuroanthropology.wordpress.com/?p=185#comment-1714 [...] As Tierney notes with a quip about a “stressed-out wage slave who has polished off a quart of Häagen-Dazs at midnight while contemplating the day’s humiliations,” inequality can bring on stress reactivity and negative mood (for more on that, see previous stress and inequality posts on Sapolsky and Blakey). In turn, inequality feeds into the obesity epidemic through both social and cultural dynamics. [...]

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