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Keywords feeding obesity overeating high-fat diet behavior economics Introduction The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) tracks historical trends in food availability,1 revealing that total available calories per capita in the United States (US) rose by about 23% between 1970 and 2014, accounted for primarily by increases in available grains and fats.2,3 Although the USDA data quantify calorie availability and not consumption, the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey...
Abstract Diets that are high in fat cause over-eating and weight gain in multiple species of animals, suggesting that high dietary fat is sufficient to cause obesity. However, high-fat diets are typically provided freely to animals in obesity experiments, so it remains unclear if high-fat diets would still cause obesity if they required more effort to obtain.
Abstract Increasing dietary fat causes over-eating and weight gain in multiple animal species, suggesting that increases in dietary fat are sufficient to cause obesity. However, in such experiments high-fat diet is typically provided freely to animals, so it remains unclear how increasing dietary fat would impact body weight if the high-fat diet required more effort to obtain.
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