ArticlePeerJ2021
Food insecurity increases energetic efficiency, not food consumption: an exploratory study in European starlings.
Article in PeerJ, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06800794 (Effect of Meal Timing and Dietary Changes on Metabolic and Behavioral Factors Involved in the Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox), which is not on this map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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Effect of Meal Timing and Dietary Changes on Metabolic and Behavioral Factors Involved in the Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox
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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 41 citations in OpenAlex.
- A Systematic Review and Meta-Analytic Assessment of Unpredictability and Disordered Eating.Obesity reviews : an official journal of the International Association for the Study of Obesity · 2026Pooled it
- Delay Discounting and the Income-Food Insecurity-Obesity Paradox in Mothers.Journal of obesity · 2023Trial
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- Habitat degradation relates to reduced immune function in nestlings, but not adults, of a tropical forest bird.Die Naturwissenschaften · 2025Article
- Ability to predict irregular periods of food depriviation improves body-weight regulation and reduces weight gain in food-insecure starlings.Royal Society open science · 2025Article
- Using Metabolic Testing to Personalize Behavioral Obesity Treatment.Obesity science & practice · 2025Article
- Effects of sublethal methylmercury and food stress on songbird energetic performance: metabolic rates, molt and feather quality.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Experimental biology can inform our understanding of food insecurity.The Journal of experimental biology · 2024Article
- Adolescent food insecurity in female rodents and susceptibility to diet-induced obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2024Article
- Food insecurity as a cause of adiposity: evolutionary and mechanistic hypotheses.Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences · 2023Review
- Parents, but not their children, demonstrate greater delay discounting with resource scarcity.BMC public health · 2023Article
- Individual response in body mass and basal metabolism to the risks of predation and starvation in passerines.The Journal of experimental biology · 2023Article
- Association of food insecurity on gut microbiome and metabolome profiles in a diverse college-based sample.Scientific reports · 2022Article
- Food insecurity is associated with higher respiratory quotient and lower glucagon-like peptide 1.Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 2022Article
- A Refined Method for Studying Foraging Behaviour and Body Mass in Group-Housed European Starlings.Animals : an open access journal from MDPI · 2022Article
- High prevalence of obesity among women in urban Haiti: Findings from a population-based cohort.Frontiers in public health · 2022Article
- Exposure to food insecurity increases energy storage and reduces somatic maintenance in European starlings (Royal Society open science · 2021Article
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7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.
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Abstract
Food insecurity-defined as limited or unpredictable access to nutritionally adequate food-is associated with higher body mass in humans and birds. It is widely assumed that food insecurity-induced fattening is caused by increased food consumption, but there is little evidence supporting this in any species. We developed a novel technology for measuring foraging, food intake and body mass in small groups of aviary-housed European starlings (
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