ArticleThe International journal of eating disorders2019
Food insecurity and bulimia nervosa in the United States.
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- Food Insecurity Predicts Excessive Exercise, Dietary Restriction, Cognitive Restraint, and Purging, but Not Binge Eating, in College Students Across 3 Months.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Article
- Detecting and addressing eating disorders among individuals experiencing food insecurity: considerations for dietetic practice.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- New understandings meet old treatments: putting a contemporary face on established protocols.Journal of eating disorders · 2024Article
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- Food insecurity and binge-eating disorder in early adolescence.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Article
- Prevalence, predictors, and treatment of eating disorders in children: a national study.Psychological medicine · 2023Article
- Do the SCOFF items function differently by food-security status in U.S. college students?: Statistically, but not practically, significant differences.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- A UK-wide survey of healthcare professionals' awareness, knowledge and skills of the impact of food insecurity on eating disorder treatment.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Health literacy and eating disorder pathology in women with food insecurity: A preliminary cross-sectional study.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Risk factors for eating disorders: findings from a rapid review.Journal of eating disorders · 2023Review
- Disadvantage and disordered eating in boys: Examining phenotypic and genotype × environment associations across development.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2023Article
- Mechanisms by which adverse childhood experiences, other traumas and PTSD influence the health and well-being of individuals with eating disorders throughout the life span.Journal of eating disorders · 2022Review
- Association of Food Insecurity and Food Addiction Symptoms: A Secondary Analysis of Two Samples of Low-Income Female Adults.Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics · 2022Observational
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Abstract
backgroundFood insecurity occurs when access to food is limited by financial hardship. Yet, paradoxically, food insecurity is associated with overeating, with emerging evidence that it may be related to disordered eating. A recent report found that food insecurity was associated with binge-eating disorder (BED), but it is not yet known whether food insecurity is also associated with bulimia nervosa (BN).
methodsParticipants were 873 respondents recruited online who completed a battery of established measures and were categorized into three study groups: healthy-weight (HW), BED, and BN. Hierarchical logistic regressions evaluated the extent to which low and very low food security were associated with BN compared with HW and BED study groups.
resultsLow and very low food security were both associated with increased likelihood of BN group membership compared with HW but not BED.
conclusionsOur findings suggest that food insecurity is associated with BN and also suggest that food insecurity's association with BN is similar to that for BED. These findings highlight the need for greater clinical and research attention to associations between food insecurity and eating disorders that include binge eating to inform eating-disorder prevention and treatment.
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