Does hunger cause obesity

摘要: Both hunger and obesity occur with an increased frequency among poorer populations in the United States.1-6 Because connotes excessive energy intake, reflects inadequate food supply, prevalence of same population seems paradoxical. Although a variety environmental, social, behavioral, or physiologic mechanisms could cause both problems independently, alternative possibility is that are causally related. The following case report supports this hypothesis. CASE REPORT A.B. (not her real initials) was 7-year-old African American girl first brought to Weight Control Program Boston Floating Hospital December 1992.