obesogenic

English

WOTD – 8 August 2011

Etymology

From obese +‎ -genic.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /əʊbiːsəˈdʒɛnɪk/

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Adjective

obesogenic (not comparable)

1. Causing obesity. [from 20th c.]
   • 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 351–357:

     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

   • 1973, Abstracts in Anthropology, volume 4:

     Thus 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 […]

   • 2004, New Scientist, 30 October 2004, page 46

     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.

Antonyms

• leptogenic

Derived terms

• obesogen
• obesogenesis

Translations

causing obesity

• Finnish: lihottava (fi)
• French: obésogène (fr)
• German: fettfördernd
• Irish: murtallaigineach
• Russian: приводя́щий к ожире́нию (privodjáščij k ožiréniju), спосо́бствующий ту́чности (sposóbstvujuščij túčnosti), спосо́бствующий изли́шней полноте́ (sposóbstvujuščij izlíšnej polnoté)
• Spanish: obesógeno (es)