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Article Excerpt
A limited number of studies have shown that, in the United States, women in food insufficient households are more likely to be overweight than women in food sufficient households (Olson, 1999; Townsend, Peerson, Love, Achterberg, & Murphy, 2001). However, these studies utilized self-reported heights and weights to define overweight. To further examine this paradoxical association between food insufficiency and overweight, we used data from the 1988-94 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES III). In that survey, heights and weights were measured. To gain additional insight, we also examined women's overall diet quality as gauged by the Healthy Eating Index (HEI) and its components.
The 1988-94 NHANES contains information on people's (1) self-reported household food sufficiency status, (2) body mass index (BMI) based on measured height and weight, and (3) self-reported individual food intake for a 1-day period (which has been shown to be a reliable depiction of the usual diets of population groups). The survey is designed to be nationally representative, and we used weighted data to reflect the population of interest. We used this data set for analysis because it contains the most recent information on measured...
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