A5080962444- Obesity and Health Practices
- Child Nutrition and Water Access
- Eating Disorders and Behaviors
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations
- Water resources management and optimization
- Water Governance and Infrastructure
- Environmental Education and Sustainability
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
- Climate Change and Health Impacts
- Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
- Humor Studies and Applications
- Culinary Culture and Tourism
- Body Contouring and Surgery
- Climate Change, Adaptation, Migration
- Climate Change Communication and Perception
- Community Health and Development
- Disaster Management and Resilience
- Participatory Visual Research Methods
- Wastewater Treatment and Reuse
- Homelessness and Social Issues
- Family Dynamics and Relationships
- Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder
- Categorization, perception, and language
- Health disparities and outcomes
Arizona State University
2015-2024
Community Impact
2019-2024
Global Impact
2019-2024
NIA IMPACT Collaboratory
2019-2024
Center for Global Health
2018-2023
San Jose State University
2023
The Ohio State University
2023
U.S. National Science Foundation
2022
Mayo Clinic in Florida
2018
University of Georgia
1998-2005
In an era when obesity prevalence is high throughout much of the world, there a correspondingly pervasive and strong culture weight stigma. For example, representative studies show that some forms discrimination are more prevalent even than based on race or ethnicity.In this Opinion article, we review compelling evidence stigma harmful to health, over above objective body mass index. Weight prospectively related heightened mortality other chronic diseases conditions. Most ironically, it...
While slim-body ideals have spread globally in the last several decades, we know comparatively little of any concurrent proliferation fat-stigmatizing beliefs. Using cultural surveys and body mass estimates collected from 680 adults urban areas 10 countries territories, test for variation how people conceptualize stigmatize excess weight obesity. consensus analysis belief statements about obese fat bodies, find evidence a shared model obesity that transcends populations includes...
Based on studies conducted in the global north, it is well documented that those who feel stigmatized by overweight/obesity can suffer extreme emotional distress, be subject to (often legal and socially-acceptable) discrimination, adjust diet exercise behaviors. These lead significant negative health impacts, including depression further weight gain. To date, weight-related stigma has been conceptualized as a problem particular highest income, industrialized, historically thin-valorizing...
Abstract There is a well‐established connection among water quality, sanitation, and physical health. The potentially important relationship between mental health considerably less studied. Reviewing evidence from ethnography, geography, folklore, indigenous studies, rural medicine, drought research, large‐n statistical we argue there now good theoretical rationale growing of insecurity as possible driver ill‐health. Furthermore, some nascent suggests that emotionally meaningful interactions...
Food and water shortages are two of the greatest challenges facing humans in coming century. While our theoretical understanding how become vulnerable to cope with hunger is relatively well developed, anthropological research on parallel problems domain limited. By carefully considering well-established propositions derived from food literature against what known about water, goal this essay advance identifying, theorizing, testing a broader anthropology resource insecurity. Our analysis...
Abstract Objectives Food and water insecurity have both been demonstrated as acute chronic stressors undermine human health development. A basic untested proposition is that they chronically coexist, household a fundamental driver of food insecurity. Methods We provide preliminary assessment their association using cross‐sectional data from 27 sites with highly diverse forms in 21 low‐ middle‐income countries across Africa, Asia, the Middle East, Americas (N = 6691 households). Household its...
Introduction A wide range of water-related problems contribute to the global burden disease. Despite many plausible consequences for health and well-being, there is no validated tool measure individual- or household-level water insecurity equivalently across varying cultural ecological settings. Accordingly, we are developing Household Water Insecurity Experiences (HWISE) Scale in multiple contexts. Methods analysis After domain specification item development, items were assessed both...
Abstract Obesity related to over‐nutrition is investigated in a sample of 219 Mexican children from affluent families, ages 6–12 years. Defined as weight‐for‐age at or above the 95 th percentile, obesity rates middle childhood are very high this population, being 24.2% (29.4% boys and 19.1% girls). Binary logistic regression shows that more likely be obese if they boys, small households with few no other children, have permissive, less authoritarian parents. Diet school activity patterns,...
Abstract Water connects the environment, culture, and biology, yet only recently has it emerged as a major focus for research in human biology. To facilitate such research, we describe methods to measure biological, environmental, perceptual indicators of water needs. This toolkit provides an overview assessing different dimensions need, both well‐established newly‐developed. These include: (a) markers hydration (eg, urine specific gravity, doubly labeled water) important measuring impacts...
Background: Weight-related stigma is reported frequently by higher body-weight patients in healthcare settings. Bariatric surgery triggers profound weight loss. This loss may therefore alleviate patients' experiences of weight-related within In non-clinical settings, associated with weight-inducing eating patterns. Dietary adherence a major challenge after bariatric surgery. Objectives: (1) Evaluate the relationship between and post-surgical dietary adherence; (2) understand if reduces...
Climate change presents an important threat to community livelihoods and well-being around the world. Biophysical vulnerability effects of climate change, such as sea level rise, coastal erosion, changing flora fauna, precipitation patterns are predicted affect island nations in particular. Emotional geographies offers a theoretical entry point understand how landscapes, which often imbued with emotion personal significance, may result heightened emotional states different outcomes depending...
Abstract Objectives The study aims to test novel proposed biocultural pathways linking the stressful lived experience of water insecurity elevated blood pressure, a risk factor for chronic disease. Using case Nepal, where women have primary responsibility managing household water, allows testing potentially gendered mechanisms that exacerbate negative physiological consequences relative men. Methods Data are from nationally representative 2016 Nepal Demographic and Health Survey (DHS), N =...