ArticleThe Journal of adolescent health : official publication of the Society for Adolescent Medicine2022
Experiencing Household Food Insecurity During Adolescence Predicts Disordered Eating and Elevated Body Mass Index 8 Years Later.
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- Food insecurity may promote opportunistic eating through heightened satiety insecurity: A cross-sectional mega-analysis study.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2025Pooled it
- 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
- Childhood food insecurity trajectories and adolescent eating disorder symptoms: a UK cohort study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2026Article
- Associations between food insecurity, food insufficiency, and disordered eating behaviors among U.S. adolescents.Eating behaviors · 2026Article
- Neonatal encephalopathy: a diffusional kurtosis imaging analysis of white matter to assess injury severity and recovery.Pediatric research · 2026Article
- Does better school adaptability lead to healthier eating behaviors?BMC public health · 2026Article
- Food Insecurity and Adolescent Obesity in the United States: A Social Ecological Analysis of Multi-Level Risk Factors and Structural Inequities.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2026Article
- Household Food Insecurity across Childhood and Weight Change Attempts in Early Adolescence: Findings from a Nationally Representative Cohort of United States Youth.Current developments in nutrition · 2026Article
- Central adiposity outperforms disordered eating behavior in predicting type 2 diabetes risk in young adults: an explainable machine learning approach.Frontiers in public health · 2026Article
- Sexual orientation and prevalence of disordered eating among young adults: Intersections with race, ethnicity, and gender.Eating behaviors · 2025Article
- Health inequity in metabolic disorders and lifestyle behaviors in under-resourced adolescents: a cross-sectional study from E-DUCASS Program.American journal of preventive cardiology · 2025Article
- Beyond the Nest: The Role of Financial Independence in Young Adult Health.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2025Article
- Long-term effect of food insecurity on body weight gain and metabolic risk in a context of high socioeconomic vulnerability in a medium-income country: the SANCuité cohort, Brazil, 2011-2022.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
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- Adolescent food insecurity in female rodents and susceptibility to diet-induced obesity.Physiology & behavior · 2024Article
- The interplay between food insecurity and family factors in relation to disordered eating in adolescence.Appetite · 2023Article
- Diet and Food and Nutrition Insecurity and Cardiometabolic Disease.Circulation research · 2023Review
- Exploring differences in disordered eating and related appetitive traits among women based on childhood and current food security status.Eating behaviors · 2023Article
- Disordered eating during pregnancy among individuals participating in the Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC).Eating behaviors · 2023Article
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Abstract
purposeGrowing evidence indicates that experiencing household food insecurity during adolescence is associated with disordered eating and elevated body mass index (BMI). However, little is known about the temporal nature of these relationships. The current longitudinal study examined how adolescent experiences of household food insecurity are related to disordered eating and weight status 8 years later.
methodsA population-based sample of ethnically/racially and socioeconomically diverse participants (n = 1,340) were surveyed as adolescents (mean age = 14.5 years) and as young adults (mean age = 22.0 years). Parents/caregivers completed the six-item U.S. Household Food Security Survey Module at baseline.
resultsHousehold food insecurity was common at baseline (37.8% of sample). In analyses adjusted for ethnicity/race and parental education, adolescent food insecurity longitudinally predicted a higher new onset of binge eating (food insecure: 21.3% vs. food secure: 16.2%, p = .038) and BMI ≥30 kg/m DISCUSSION: Results of this longitudinal study suggest that household food insecurity during adolescence is a risk factor for disordered eating and elevated BMI in young adulthood, highlighting a need to comprehensively address these intersecting problems.
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