Traditional Shuar lunch items
(Photo by Samuel Urlacher)
Active rural Shuar child (Photo by Samuel Urlacher)
Baylor University anthropologist Samuel Urlacher, Ph.D.
(Photo by Matthew Minard, Baylor University)
Jan. 19, 2021
Findings among children in Amazonian Ecuador offer insight into the relative importance of diet versus energy expenditure for rise in obesity
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WACO, Texas (Jan. 19, 2021) — Variation in consumption of market-acquired foods outside of the traditional diet — but not in total number of calories burned daily — is reliably related to indigenous Amazonian children’s body fat, according to a study led by Baylor University that offers insight into the global obesity epidemic.