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Provedor de dados: 	31	
País: 	United States	
Título: 	NATIVE AMERICAN OBESITY: AN ECONOMIC MODEL OF THE THRIFTY GENE THEORY	
Autores: 	Richards,   Timothy J.; Patterson,   Paul M.	
Data: 	2004-07-15	
Ano: 	2004	
Palavras-chave: 	Food Consumption/Nutrition/Food Safety; Health Economics and Policy.	
Resumo: 	Native American obesity and the associated health conditions are generally thought to result in part from a genetic predisposition to overeating fats and carbohydrates, called the "thrifty gene."  Although coined by nutritional scientists, this study maintains the origin of the thrifty gene lies in economics.  Apparently harmful overconsumption and addiction constitute economically rational behavior if the increment to current utility from adding to one's stock of "consumption capital" is greater than the present value of utility lost in the future due to ill health and the costs of withdrawal. Tests of these conditions for such "rational addiction" are conducted using two-stage household production approach.  The results obtained by estimating this model in a panel of Native and non-Native supermarket scanner data show that both Natives and non-Natives tend to be inherently forward-looking in their nutrient choices, but Natives tend to have far higher long-run demand elasticities for carbohydrates compared to non-Natives.  Consequently, reductions in real food prices over time, primarily among foods that are dense in simple carbohydrates, leads Native Americans to over-consume potentially harmful nutrients relative to their traditional diet.	
Tipo: 	Conference Paper or Presentation	
Idioma: 	Inglês	
Identificador: 	14726

http://purl.umn.edu/36208	
Editor: 	AgEcon Search	
Relação: 	Western Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2004 Annual Meeting, June 30-July 2, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii

Selected Paper of the 2004 Annual Meeting, June 30-July 2, 2004, Honolulu, Hawaii	
Formato: 	41

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