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1. Introduction
2. Environmental and societal influences diagram
3. Objective
4. Environmental influences on obesity
5. Changes in the BMI distribution in U.S. adults
6. Environmental influences on obesity
7. Socio-cultural influences
8. "Built environment" influences
9. Economic influences
10. Variations in obesity prevalence
11. Global obesity
12. Obesity in European adults
13. Obesity in populations of the African Diaspora
14. Obesity prevalence trends: adults 20-74 years
15. U.S children and adolescents obesity prevalence
16. Differences in weight status in U.S foreigns
17. Ethnic differences in obesity prevalence in women
18. 12-17 year olds overweight - ethnicity and income
19. Age-adjusted prevalence of overweight in women
20. BMI change from age 25 years to phase 3
21. A causal scenario
22. Who we are and how we live
23. Societal transformations
24. Shifts in dietary patterns
25. Shifts in physical activity
26. Obesity causal web of societal processes
27. Most important environmental pathways
28. A word about "evidence"
29. Evidence needed: questions
30. Influence of media changes on obesity increase
31. TV viewing and obesity: adults
32. TV and body weight: pre-school children
33. TV and cable/satellite access in 21 countries
34. Media use
35. Parents educational attainment
36. The influence of a TV reduction program on BMI
37. Affects of food amount and marketing on obesity
38. Food marketing
39. Calories from the U.S. per capita food supply
40. Changes in chocolate chip cookie size
41. Changes in chicken stir fry size
42. Changes in coffee cup size
43. Fast foods and soda consumption
44. Fast food, weight gain and insulin resistance
45. Percent of adolescents eating fast food every day
46. Consumption of milk compared with soft drinks
47. Food pricing trends
48. Ethnic targeting of TV ads
49. Percent of residents by store desirability
50. Approaches to modifying food environments
51. Pennsylvania fresh food financing initiative (FFFI)
52. Public-private partnership of three organizations
53. The affect of changes in physical activity options
54. Percentage of walking and bicycling in urban areas
55. Contributors to the decline in physical activity
56. Sedentary behavior among U.S. adults
57. Inequality in the built environment
58. Recommendations for increasing physical activity
59. Affects of culturally-based attitudes and practices
60. Cultural influences
61. Relative perceptions
62. Excess sociocultural risk in color communities (1)
63. Excess sociocultural risk in color communities (2)
64. Summary (1)
65. Summary (2)

Topics Covered

• Rapid increases in obesity prevalence globally
• Increases in obesity among immigrants
• Socio-cultural influences: human relationships and interactions, attitudes, norms and values and social structure
• "Built environment" influences: how land and space are organised and used and the infrastructure for getting from place to place
• Economic influences: determinants of food access and availability and physical activity patterns
• Variations in obesity prevalence globally and in Europe, Africa and America
• Societal transformations
• Shifts in dietary patterns
• Shifts in physical activity
• The most important environmental pathways: media environment and media use, food marketing, options for physical activity and individual socio-cultural perspectives

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Series:

• Obesity

Categories:

• Clinical Practice
• Metabolism & Nutrition

Therapeutic Areas:

• Cardiovascular & Metabolic

Talk Citation

Kumanyika, S. (2007, October 1). Environmental causes of obesity: sociocultural, built environment and economic factors [Video file]. In The Biomedical & Life Sciences Collection, Henry Stewart Talks. Retrieved April 15, 2025, from https://doi.org/10.69645/GHLV4418.
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Publication History

• Published on October 1, 2007

Financial Disclosures

• Prof. Shiriki Kumanyika has not informed HSTalks of any commercial/financial relationship that it is appropriate to disclose.