Obesity and hunger exist side by side throughout the United States. What is remarkable
and counterintuitive is that the contradictory concepts of hunger and obesity are
now known to coexist within the same person and within the same household. This phenomenon
is called the hunger-obesity paradox.
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This article was written by Lee M. Scheier, freelance writer in Chicago, IL.
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© 2005 American Dietetic Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
