Poverty, inequality, and increased consumption of high calorie food: Experimental evidence for a causal link

Bratanova, Boyka; Loughnan, Steve; Klein, Olivier; Claassen, Almudena; Wood, Robert E.

doi:10.1016/j.appet.2016.01.028

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“…As already established decades ago [23], [44], it is not only the material position one occupies but also the personal perception of it that can have a profound effect on one’s life (see also [45], [46], [47]). Indeed, these subjective perceptions relate to health [21],[22] and health lifestyle [48], [49], [50], yet the pathways through which this happens are not fully clear.…”

Section: The Impact Of Materials Class and Subjective Status On Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The fact that subjective social status could impact health both through a mediating and possibly moderating pathway [21] is the basis of our empirical scrutiny. Additionally, we extend our study towards health where experimental studies indicate subjective social status to be of importance [48], [49], [50]. …”

Section: The Impact Of Materials Class and Subjective Status On Healthmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Mind over matter. The impact of subjective social status on health outcomes and health behaviors

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Recent insights have shown subjective status to impact health and health behavior. It is however unclear how this exactly happens. In this study we explore two mechanisms: this of a direct, mediating effect of subjective status explaining the impact of material class on health outcomes and behavior and an indirect, moderating impact on the relationship between material class and health outcomes and behavior. To test this empirically we conduct two studies, focusing on Great-Britain, using survey-data from the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (N: 2709–3448) and the Whitehall II-study (N: 6275–6467). Our linear and logistic regression analyses show subjective status has a mainly direct impact on health outcomes and has both a direct, mediating and indirect, moderating impact on health behavior. In the conclusion of our article we reflect on the theoretical reasons why subjective status has a direct impact in certain cases, while playing an indirect role in other cases.

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Section: The Impact Of Materials Class and Subjective Status On Healthmentioning

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Section: The Impact Of Materials Class and Subjective Status On Healthmentioning

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Mind over matter. The impact of subjective social status on health outcomes and health behaviors

2018

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“…Again, this is distinct from mentioning the negative mental health impacts of climate change. In discussions of education and behavior, there is no mention of educating the affluent to understand what it 'feels' like to be in poverty [208][209][210]; this is an upstream step that might incentivize policy makers to more viscerally understand how neoliberal 'behaviors' influence the status quo. Moreover, the term living wage (or even the word 'wage' makes no appearance)-which seems odd given its connection to positive mental health and the healthy behaviors, (including healthy dietary patterns and opportunity for recreation) which planetary health is attempting to promote [211][212][213][214][215][216][217][218].…”

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Larger Than Life: Injecting Hope into the Planetary Health Paradigm

Prescott

Logan

2018

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Abstract:The term planetary health, popularized in the 1980s and 1990s, was born out of necessity; although the term was used by many diverse groups, it was consistently used to underscore that human health is coupled to the health of natural systems within the Earth's biosphere. The interrelated challenges of climate change, massive biodiversity losses, environmental degradation, grotesque socioeconomic inequalities, conflicts, and a crisis of non-communicable diseases are, mildly stated, daunting. Despite 'doomsday' scenarios, there is plenty of room for hope and optimism in planetary health. All over planet Earth, humans are making efforts at the macro, meso and micro scales to promote the health of civilization with the ingredients of hope-agency and pathway thinking; we propose that planetary health requires a greater commitment to understanding hope at the personal and collective levels. Prioritizing hope as an asset in planetary health necessitates deeper knowledge and discourse concerning the barriers to hope and the ways in which hope and the utopian impulse are corrupted; in particular, it requires examining the ways in which hope is leveraged by advantaged groups and political actors to maintain the status quo, or even promote retrograde visions completely at odds with planetary health. Viewing the Earth as a superorganism, with humans as the collective 'nervous system', may help with an understanding of the ways in which experience and emotions lead to behavioral responses that may, or may not be, in the best interest of planetary health. We argue that the success of planetary health solutions is predicated on a more sophisticated understanding of the psychology of prevention and intervention at all scales.

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“…Research on allostatic load informs us that past experiences in the ecological theatre would prime the individual for higher levels of inflammation and oxidative stress in response to stress. Consider that even the mere researcher-invoked feeling of poverty or belonging to an SES "out-group" (in a laboratory setting) is enough to alter dietary choices in the direction of low-nutrient, high-calorie foods [93][94][95].…”

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Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch

Prescott

Logan

2017

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Advances in science have illuminated the role of the "ecological theatre"-the total living environment-in human health. In a rapidly changing epoch known as the anthropocene, microbiome science is identifying functional connections between all life, both seen and unseen. Rather than an easily identifiable era appearing in rock strata, the anthropocene is more of a diagnostic syndrome, a set of signs and symptoms including climate change, gross biodiversity losses, environmental degradation, and an epidemic of non-communicable diseases. The syndrome is intertwined with politics, economics, public policies (or lack thereof), social values, and a global push of calorie-dense, nutrient-poor foods and beverages. The healing of anthropocene syndrome is the grand challenge of humanity. Expanding on the "Mars Can Wait" argument of Geoffrey Goodman, et al., we focus on the urgency with which health promotion must be prioritized here on Earth. We revive Jonas Salk's biophilosophy: a call to action for collaboration between biologists, humanists, and scholars of all stripes. From this perspective, lines of distinction between personal, public, and planetary health are removed. We also describe the symbiocene: the possibility of a new epoch in which mutualism will be considered imperative. If society asks the right questions, a transition to the symbiocene is possible; the "stratigraphical" mark of the new epoch will be found in a repudiation of authoritarianism, and the promotion of empathy, cultural competency, emotional intelligence, and commitment to optimism, tolerance, and the facilitation of the WHO definition of health, i.e., the fulfillment of human potential.

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Poverty, inequality, and increased consumption of high calorie food: Experimental evidence for a causal link

Cited by 92 publications

References 49 publications

Mind over matter. The impact of subjective social status on health outcomes and health behaviors

Mind over matter. The impact of subjective social status on health outcomes and health behaviors

Larger Than Life: Injecting Hope into the Planetary Health Paradigm

Down to Earth: Planetary Health and Biophilosophy in the Symbiocene Epoch

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