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Ross CE, Hill TD. Reconceptualizing the Association between Food Insufficiency and Body Weight: Distinguishing Hunger from Economic Hardship. Sociol Perspect. 2013;56(4):547-567doi: 10.1525/sop.2013.56.4.547.
Ross, C. E., & Hill, T. D. (2013). Reconceptualizing the Association between Food Insufficiency and Body Weight: Distinguishing Hunger from Economic Hardship. Sociological perspectives : SP : official publication of the Pacific Sociological Association, 56(4), 547-567. https://doi.org/10.1525/sop.2013.56.4.547
Ross, Catherine E, and Hill, Terrence D. "Reconceptualizing the Association between Food Insufficiency and Body Weight: Distinguishing Hunger from Economic Hardship." Sociological perspectives : SP : official publication of the Pacific Sociological Association vol. 56,4 (2013): 547-567. doi: https://doi.org/10.1525/sop.2013.56.4.547
Ross CE, Hill TD. Reconceptualizing the Association between Food Insufficiency and Body Weight: Distinguishing Hunger from Economic Hardship. Sociol Perspect. 2013 Jan 01;56(4):547-567. doi: 10.1525/sop.2013.56.4.547. PMID: 24244066; PMCID: PMC3826261.
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Sociol Perspect. 2013 Jan 01;56(4):547-567. doi: 10.1525/sop.2013.56.4.547.

Reconceptualizing the Association between Food Insufficiency and Body Weight: Distinguishing Hunger from Economic Hardship.

Sociological perspectives : SP : official publication of the Pacific Sociological Association

Catherine E Ross, Terrence D Hill

Affiliations

  1. University of Texas.

PMID: 24244066 PMCID: PMC3826261 DOI: 10.1525/sop.2013.56.4.547

Abstract

What is the association between food insufficiency and body weight? Although common sense would suggest a negative association, research often finds the opposite. We contrast commodity theories of material privation with stress theories, proposing that the seemingly counterintuitive association results from the confounding influence of economic hardship. Because it is a chronic stressor, economic hardship may contribute to overweight. Data from the WCF project of 2,402 disadvantaged women in Chicago, Boston, and San Antonio show that people who experience economic hardship weigh more; and that the true negative association between body weight and food insufficiency-especially going hungry because one cannot afford food-is revealed only after adjustment for economic hardship.

Keywords: body weight; economic hardship; food insufficiency

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