Energy poverty and obesity

Prakash, Kushneel; Munyanyi, Musharavati Ephraim

doi:10.1016/j.eneco.2021.105428

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“…Obesity is a chronic, complex, endocrine-metabolic disease that is a significant risk factor for numerous comorbidities [ 1 ]. Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES) have shown that obesity prevalence in the United States increased from 30.5% in 1999–2000 to 42.4% in 2017–2018 [ 2 ], a fact that is conveyed in healthcare costs, not only in the USA but in many countries with Westernized lifestyles [ 3 , 4 , 5 ].…”

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Probiotics and Gut Microbiota in Obesity: Myths and Realities of a New Health Revolution

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Obesity and its comorbidities are humans’ most prevalent cardio-metabolic diseases worldwide. Recent evidence has shown that chronic low-grade inflammation is a common feature in all highly prevalent chronic degenerative diseases. In this sense, the gut microbiota is a complete ecosystem involved in different processes like vitamin synthesis, metabolism regulation, and both appetite and immune system control. Thus, dysbiosis has been recognised as one of the many factors associated with obesity due to a predominance of Firmicutes, a decrease in Bifidobacterium in the gut, and a consequent short-chain fatty acids (SCFA) synthesis reduction leading to a reduction in incretins action and intestinal permeability increase. In this context, bacteria, bacterial endotoxins, and toxic bacterial by-products are translocated to the bloodstream, leading to systemic inflammation. This review focuses on gut microbiota composition and its role in obesity, as well as probiotics and prebiotics benefits in obesity.

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Probiotics and Gut Microbiota in Obesity: Myths and Realities of a New Health Revolution

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“…This finding is further reinforced by Churchill and Smyth (2021), who show that both objective and subjective indicators of EP contribute to poor SRH in Australia. In the same country, Prakash and Munyanyi (2021) find that EP leads to an increased likelihood of being obese.…”

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“…A growing body of literature has investigated the EP-health nexus in developed economies (see, for instance, Churchill & Smyth, 2021;Kahouli, 2020;Lacroix & Chaton, 2015;Llorca et al, 2020;Oliveras, Peralta, et al, 2020;Prakash & Munyanyi, 2021). Specifically, Lacroix and Chaton (2015) show that being energy poor (proxied by self-reported perceptions of thermal discomfort) increases the probability of reporting poor health in France.…”

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“…Although a growing body of literature has examined the EP-health relationship in Australia (Churchill & Smyth, 2021;Prakash & Munyanyi, 2021), France (Kahouli, 2020), Spain (Oliveras, Artazcoz, et al, 2020), 27 European countries (Oliveras, Peralta, et al, 2020), 50 developing countries (Banerjee et al, 2021), and China (Zhang et al, 2019;Z. Zhang et al, 2021), evidence on how EP affects health care expenditures remains scarce.…”

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Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

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2022

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“…Hailemariam et al found that energy poverty has increased the possibility of Australian residents suffering physical violence ( 32 ). Prakash et al concluded that energy poverty is positively correlated with obesity among Australian residents ( 33 ). Zhang et al used instrumental variable quantile regression (IVQR) to find a significantly positive impact of energy poverty on depression at the high quantile of depression scores among rural Chinese residents but found no impact at the low and middle quantiles ( 34 ).…”

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Multidimensional energy poverty and depression among China's older adults

Hou

Zhou

Jiang

2022

Front. Public Health

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Older adults often face more pronounced energy inequality in their daily lives, which is one of the reasons for their accumulation of stress or anxiety and may further aggravate their depression. Analyzing the relationship between energy poverty and the depression level of China's older adults will provide policy enlightenment for solving the problems of older adults' relative poverty, energy poverty, and mental poverty and thus promote happy and healthy aging. In this paper, using the data of China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study in 2018, we used the entropy weighting method to objectively assign weights to 10 indicators reflecting the status of energy poverty and construct a multidimensional energy poverty index for older adults. First, we analyzed the relationship between multidimensional energy poverty and the depression levels of older adults using multiple linear regression model and quantile regression models. Next, we used instrumental variable linear regression model and instrumental variable quantile regression models for endogeneity tests. Then, we performed a robustness check by replacing the core explanatory variable. After that, we conducted heterogeneity analyses by residential area, type of residence, and solitary status. Finally, we analyzed the mediating role of life satisfaction using structural equation modeling. Multidimensional energy poverty has aggravated depression among older adults, and the effect is greater for older adults with higher depression levels. The effect of multidimensional energy poverty on depression is greater for older adults in western China, urban areas, and those who live alone. Multidimensional energy poverty has aggravated depression among older adults by reducing their life satisfaction.

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Energy poverty and obesity

Cited by 39 publications

References 89 publications

Probiotics and Gut Microbiota in Obesity: Myths and Realities of a New Health Revolution

Probiotics and Gut Microbiota in Obesity: Myths and Realities of a New Health Revolution

Energy Poverty and Health Care Expenditures: Evidence from the China Family Panel Studies

Multidimensional energy poverty and depression among China's older adults

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