چکیده :
A greater proportion of the United States (US) population is overweight or obese (with BMI
over 25 kg/m2) relative to all Western European populations, and it might be expected that
migrants to either the US or Western Europe would develop patterns of overweight and
obesity that reflect this difference. This paper examines the effects of obesogenic
environments on Asians by reporting differences in rates of overweight (which is taken to
include obesity in this analysis) among 261 adult South Koreans, which had been adopted
in early-life into white middle class families living in the US and in Western European
Nations. Data collected during an international adoption survey carried out for the Korean
government in 2008 were analyzed. The prevalence of overweight of adopted Koreans
raised in the US significantly exceeds the level among adopted Koreans in Europe by 11.3%.
These intercontinental differences are statistically significant after controlling for sex,
current age, age of adoption, and education. This paper supports the view that life-style
factors are more detrimental for the weight status of people in the US than in Western
Europe
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