ArticleCurrent developments in nutrition2020
Food Insecurity Is Associated with Increased Risk of Obesity in US College Students.
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"Get Fruved:" A Peer-led, Train-the-trainer Social Marketing Intervention to Increase Fruit and Vegetable Intake and Prevent Childhood Obesity.
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23 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 56 citations in OpenAlex.
- Analysis of Food Insecurity in U.S. Colleges Using Current Assessment Tools-A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2026Pooled it
- Systematic review of the effects of pandemic confinements on body weight and their determinants.The British journal of nutrition · 2022Pooled it
- Mapping Knowledge Gaps: A Needs Assessment of Sorghum, Whole Grains Knowledge and Prediabetes Risk.Nutrients · 2026Article
- How Is U.S. Food-Insecurity Related to Dietary Quality? A Scoping Review to Inform Nutrition Security Across the Lifespan.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Combined Measure of Hand Grip Strength and Body Mass Index for Predicting Excess Body Fat in a University Population in Kentucky, USA.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- The effect of food insecurity on psychosocial aspects of academic achievement.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Food insecurity in college students: a qualitative exploration of the multiple domains.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Food Insecurity Associated With Higher Odds of Hypertriglyceridemic Waist Phenotype in Women: A Cross-Sectional Study.Food science & nutrition · 2025Article
- Food Insecurity, Health, and Socioeconomic Status: Results from the University of the Basque Country, Spain.Nutrients · 2025Article
- Food Acquisition Coping Strategies Vary Based on Food Security Among University Students.Current developments in nutrition · 2025Article
- Social Determinants of Health and College Food Insecurity.Nutrients · 2024Article
- Methods for Assessing Health Outcomes Associated with Food Insecurity in the United States College Student Population: A Narrative Review.Advances in nutrition (Bethesda, Md.) · 2024Review
- Multi-Level Determinants of Food Insecurity among Racially and Ethnically Diverse College Students.Nutrients · 2023Article
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- What's to Eat and Drink on Campus? Public and Planetary Health, Public Higher Education, and the Public Good.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Empirical Dietary Patterns Associated with Food Insecurity in U.S. Cancer Survivors: NHANES 1999-2018.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Article
- Differences in Measured and Self-Categorized Food Security Status and Related Coping Strategies among College Students.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Lifestyle behaviors in Swedish university students before and during the first six months of the COVID-19 pandemic: a cohort study.BMC public health · 2022Article
- A Decade of College Student Hunger: What We Know and Where We Need to Go.Frontiers in public health · 2022Review
- Food Insecurity and Cardiometabolic Conditions: a Review of Recent Research.Current nutrition reports · 2021Review
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Abstract
backgroundFood insecurity affects millions of Americans and college students are especially vulnerable. Little is known about the relation of food insecurity with weight status and dietary intake during this critical phase of emerging adulthood.
objectivesWe aimed to examine the sex-specific associations of food insecurity with obesity and dietary intake among college students. The study also explored these associations by meal plan (MP) enrollment.
methodsThis cross-sectional study included 683 second-year students at 8 universities in the United States. Food security status and dietary intake were assessed using the USDA Adult Food Security Survey and the Dietary Screener Questionnaire, respectively. On-site anthropometrics were measured by researchers.
resultsThe prevalence of food insecurity at the universities ranged from 19.0% to 34.1% with a mean of 25.4% for the entire sample. Compared with high food security, marginal food security and food insecurity were associated with 3.16 (95% CI: 1.55, 6.46) and 5.13 (95% CI: 2.63, 10.00) times increased odds of obesity, respectively, exhibiting a dose-response relation. Food insecurity remained a significant predictor of obesity among both sexes after adjusting for sociodemographic variables. Food-insecure (FI) students had a significantly lower intake of fruits and vegetables and higher intake of added sugars than food-secure (FS) students. Obesity rate and added sugars consumption were higher among FI students with MPs than among FI students lacking MPs and FS students regardless of MP status. Among students with MPs, FS students had a higher intake of fruits and vegetables than FI students.
conclusionsFood insecurity was associated with obesity and poor dietary intake among both sexes. Although MP subsidies may be a reasoned approach to combat food insecurity, it should be coupled with efforts to assist students in making healthy food choices.Registered at clinicaltrials.gov as NCT02941497.
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