ReviewCurrent psychiatry reports2020
Food Insecurity and Eating Disorders: a Review of Emerging Evidence.
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136 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The collateral effects of the COVID-19 pandemic: A gender-specific systematic review of disordered eating behaviour in the general population.European eating disorders review : the journal of the Eating Disorders Association · 2025Pooled it
- Psychological Characteristics of Fathers of People With Bulimia Nervosa: A Systematic Review.The International journal of eating disorders · 2025Pooled it
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- Food insecurity and binge eating: A systematic review and meta-analysis.The International journal of eating disorders · 2023Pooled it
- Food insecurity and disordered eating behaviors in children and adolescents: A systematic review.Eating behaviors · 2023Pooled it
- Children's nutritional health and wellbeing in food insecure households in Europe: A qualitative meta-ethnography.PloS one · 2023Pooled it
- Impact of Health and Social Factors on the Cardiometabolic Risk in People with Food Insecurity: A Systematic Review.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2022Pooled it
- A systematic review of sociodemographic reporting and representation in eating disorder psychotherapy treatment trials in the United States.The International journal of eating disorders · 2022Pooled it
- Relationship between food insecurity and a gestational diabetes risk reduction intervention: outcomes among American Indian and Alaska Native adolescent and young adult females.Translational behavioral medicine · 2023Trial
- Food insecurity moderates the relationship between momentary affect and adherence in a dietary intervention study.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Trial
- Childhood food insecurity trajectories and adolescent eating disorder symptoms: a UK cohort study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Eating disorder severity and treatment outcome across race/ethnicity, sexual orientation, and socioeconomic status: Intersectional inequities in a clinical sample.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2026Article
- Discrimination and Disordered Eating in Economically Disadvantaged Adults: A Multilevel, Longitudinal Study.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Associations between food insecurity, food insufficiency, and disordered eating behaviors among U.S. adolescents.Eating behaviors · 2026Article
- Feasibility and Preliminary Efficacy of a Guided Self-Help Digital Intervention for Adults With Food Insecurity, Recurrent Binge Eating, and Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus: A Pilot Trial.The International journal of eating disorders · 2026Article
- Food Insecurity and Binge Eating: Exploring Reward-Based Eating, Psychological Distress, and Diet Quality as Underlying Mechanisms.Nutrients · 2026Article
- Disordered eating behaviors, food insecurity and the COVID-19 pandemic among undergraduate students in the United States: a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2026Review
- Prevalence and Correlates of Caregiver-Reported Disordered Eating Behaviors and Concerns Among US Children and Adolescents Aged 6 to 17 Years, 2022.Preventing chronic disease · 2026Article
- From pantry to physiology: A narrative review linking food insecurity to biological dysfunction.Dialogues in health · 2026Review
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Abstract
purpose of reviewThis review summarizes emerging evidence for the relationship between food insecurity and eating disorder (ED) pathology, outlines priorities for future research in this area, and comments on considerations for clinical and public health practice. RECENT
findingsAmong adults, food insecurity is cross-sectionally associated with higher levels of overall ED pathology, binge eating, compensatory behaviors, binge-eating disorder, and bulimia nervosa. Evidence for similar relationships among adolescents has been less robust; however, compared to studies of adults, there have been substantially fewer studies conducted in adolescents to date. Emerging evidence consistently indicates that food insecurity is cross-sectionally associated with bulimic-spectrum ED pathology among adults. Findings emphasize the need for ED research to include marginalized populations who have historically been overlooked in the ED field. Much more research is needed to better understand the relationship between food insecurity and ED pathology and to determine effective ways to intervene.
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