ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2015
Food insecurity during pregnancy leads to stress, disordered eating, and greater postpartum weight among overweight women.
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- Household food insecurity and symptoms of anxiety and depression during pregnancy: Systematic review and meta-analysis.Maternal & child nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- Focusing attention on the important association between food insecurity and psychological distress: a systematic review and meta-analysis.BMC nutrition · 2024Pooled it
- Household food insecurity associated with gestacional and neonatal outcomes: a systematic review.BMC pregnancy and childbirth · 2020Pooled it
- Food insecurity and emotional health in the USA: a systematic narrative review of longitudinal research.Public health nutrition · 2017Pooled it
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- Additive effects of household food insecurity during pregnancy and infancy on maternal infant feeding styles and practices.Appetite · 2018Trial
- Food insufficiency, depression, and the modifying role of social support: Evidence from a population-based, prospective cohort of pregnant women in peri-urban South Africa.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2016Trial
- Optimizing the Postpartum Period to Support Lifelong Health for Women with Obesity.Current obesity reports · 2026Review
- Structural Drivers of Neighborhood Food Access: Implications for Policy Change.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2026Article
- When safety competes with nutrition: maternal dietary diversity and coping strategies in conflict-affected Sokoto State, Nigeria.BMC public health · 2026Article
- Impact of household food insecurity on the use of maternal health services in the Savanes region, Togo: a qualitative study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Associations between food insecurity with gestational diabetes mellitus and maternal outcomes mediated by dietary diversity: A cross-sectional study.World journal of diabetes · 2025Article
- Food insecurity during pregnancy and associated perinatal outcomes: a scoping review.Epidemiologic reviews · 2025Article
- Food Insecurity in Pregnancy, Receipt of Food Assistance, and Perinatal Complications.JAMA network open · 2025Article
- Association between food insecurity and mental health outcomes among a convenient sample of Lebanese pregnant women.PloS one · 2025Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic and Food Insecurity among Pregnant Women in an Important City of the Amazon Region: A Study of the Years 2021 and 2022.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Views and preferences of food-insecure pregnant women regarding food insecurity screening and support within routine antenatal care.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Maternal periconception food insecurity and postpartum parenting stress and bonding outcomes.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Associations between food insecurity and child and parental physical, nutritional, psychosocial and economic well-being globally during the first 1000 days: A scoping review.Maternal & child nutrition · 2024Article
- Understanding Food Insecurity as a Determinant of Health in Pregnancy Within the United States: An Integrative Review.Health equity · 2024Review
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the influence of food insecurity on women's stress, disordered eating, dietary fat intake, and weight during the postpartum period.
methodsThe association between marginal food security and food insecurity-measured during pregnancy and postpartum-and stress, disordered eating, dietary fat intake, and weight at 3 and 12 months postpartum was estimated using multivariate linear regression, controlling for demographic and socioeconomic characteristics and health behaviors. Effect modification between level of food insecurity and prepregnancy weight status was assessed, hypothesizing a stronger association would be found among women who started pregnancy with overweight or obesity.
resultsFood insecurity status during pregnancy was strongly associated with higher levels of stress, disordered eating, and dietary fat intake at 3 and 12 months postpartum; during the postpartum period, food insecurity was associated with these measures at 12 months postpartum. A significant interaction was found between level of food insecurity and prepregnancy weight status; food insecurity was associated with greater weight and BMI at 12 months only among women with overweight or obesity.
conclusionsIn order to return to one's prepregnancy weight, women with overweight and obesity who face household food insecurity may need multipronged assistance that not only addresses having enough high-quality food, but also include stress reduction and eating behavior interventions.
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