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Published online 18 June 2001 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news010621-1
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Lack of food puts poor women at risk of obesity.
Women struggling to put food on the table are more likely to be overweight than those with a reliably full refrigerator, according to new research1.
From a US government survey of food intake of almost 10,000 Americans nationwide Marilyn Townsend of the University of California, Davis and her colleagues find that the prevalence of obesity increases among women as their household income nears the poverty line.
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