Obesity in minority women: calories, commerce, and culture.
Obesity is increasing at epidemic rates in all women, but especially in minority women and children. Factors that contribute to this include changes in caloric intake and expenditure (calories), cost and ease of acquiring food along with pressures from the marketplace and media (commerce) and the community response to the increasing prevalence of obesity and sedentary lifestyle (culture).
Phelan
Sharon T
ST
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, School of Medicine, University of New Mexico, 2211 Lomas Boulevard, NE, MSC10 5580, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA. stphelan@salud.unm.edu
D000329:Advertising; D003132:Commerce; D002149:Energy Intake / Q000502:physiology; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D009765:Obesity / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000208:ethnology; D015995:Prevalence