Meanings
- not comparableCausing obesity.First known use 20th c.
Ironically, the US's obesogenic environment is one that societies through the ages have dreamed of: tasty cheap food in abundance, and barely a lick of hard work to be done.
2004, New Scientist, 30 October 2004, page 462 more examples
Some authors have characterized the so-called obesogenic family and have observed the similarity between this kind of family constellation and that of the schizophrenic patient
1970 July 1, Jimmie Holland with Joseph Masling and Donald Copley, “Mental Illness in Lower Class Normal, Obese and Hyperobese Women”, in Psychosomatic Medicine, volume 32, number 4, pages 351–357Thus the changes of lifestyle, concerning diet and physical activity, ie obesogenic environment, was assumed responsible. In addition, the effect of thrifty genotype has been also considered - especially in the countries where obesity […]
1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4
Synonyms & antonyms
Origin
- Englishobese
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵenh₁-
- Proto-Indo-European*ǵénh₁os
- Proto-Hellenic*génos
- Ancient Greekγένος (génos)
- Englishobesogenic
Translations
Finnish lihottava
- lihottavacausing obesity
French obésogène
- obésogènecausing obesity
German fettfördernd
- fettförderndcausing obesity
Irish murtallaigineach
- murtallaigineachcausing obesity
Russian приводя́щий к ожире́нию, спосо́бствующий ту́чности
- приводя́щий к ожире́нию (privodjáščij k ožiréniju)causing obesity
- спосо́бствующий ту́чности (sposóbstvujuščij túčnosti)causing obesity
- спосо́бствующий изли́шней полноте́ (sposóbstvujuščij izlíšnej polnoté)causing obesity
Spanish obesógeno
- obesógenocausing obesity
Cite this entry
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