SynthesisPublic health nutrition2021
Expanding the limits of sex: a systematic review concerning food and nutrition in transgender populations.
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15 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Transgender and gender nonconforming people's vulnerability to food insecurity: systematic review and meta-synthesis.Cadernos de saude publica · 2026Pooled it
- Body mass index and body composition changes in transgender people undergoing gender-affirming hormone therapy: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2025Pooled it
- Relationship between Food Habits, Nutritional Status, and Hormone Therapy among Transgender Adults: A Systematic Review.Nutrients · 2024Pooled it
- Beyond the binary: disparities in food consumption and alcohol intake among Brazilian sexual minorities.BMC nutrition · 2026Article
- Eating behaviors in transmasculine and transfeminine adults assessed by the three factor eating questionnaire.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Inclusive Nutrition Care for LGBT+ Patients: Challenges and Opportunities for Dietitians-A Narrative Review.Nutrients · 2025Review
- Material hardship and use of social safety net programs among LGBT adults and their families.Analyses of social issues and public policy : ASAP · 2025Article
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- Discrimination, Health, and Resistance for Thai Transgender Women.Journal of racial and ethnic health disparities · 2024Article
- Food insecurity, nutritional status and socioeconomic factors in the transgender population: a cross-sectional study in the Metropolitan Region of Baixada Santista, Brazil, 2023.Epidemiologia e servicos de saude : revista do Sistema Unico de Saude do Brasil · 2024Article
- Gender-Affirming Nutrition: An Overview of Eating Disorders in the Transgender Population.Current nutrition reports · 2023Review
- Registered Dietitian Nutritionists' Knowledge, Attitudes, and Beliefs Regarding Nutrition for the Transgender Population in Three New England States: A Cross-Sectional Study.Journal of immigrant and minority health · 2023Article
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- Diet, Food Insecurity, and CVD Risk in Sexual and Gender Minority Adults.Current atherosclerosis reports · 2022Review
- Health and Access to Gender-Affirming Care During COVID-19: Experiences of transmasculine individuals and men assigned female sex at birth.American journal of men's healthArticle
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Abstract
objectiveTo examine the literature and identify main themes, methods and results of studies concerning food and nutrition addressed in research on transgender populations.
designA systematic review conducted through July 2020 in the MedLine/PubMed, Scopus and Web of Science databases.
resultsOf the 778 studies identified in the databases, we selected thirty-seven. The studies were recent, most of them published after 2015, being produced in Global North countries. The most often used study design was cross-sectional; the least frequently used study design was ethnographic. Body image and weight control were predominant themes (n 25), followed by food and nutrition security (n 5), nutritional status (n 5), nutritional health assistance (n 1) and emic visions of healthy eating (n 1).
conclusionsThe transgender community presents body, food and nutritional relationships traversed by its unique gender experience, which challenges dietary and nutritional recommendations based on the traditional division by sex (male and female). We need to complete the lacking research and understand contexts in the Global South, strategically investing in exploratory-ethnographic research, to develop categories of analysis and recommendations that consider the transgender experience.
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