ArticlePublic health nutrition2024
Adverse childhood experiences and unhealthy dietary behaviours in adulthood.
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- Adverse childhood experiences and adult stress eating: A secondary analysis of the Southern Community Cohort Study.Research square · 2026Article
- Interpersonal adversity and health across the life course.Current opinion in psychology · 2026Review
- Long-term risk of irritable bowel syndrome associated with adverse childhood and adulthood experiences: a large-scale prospective cohort study.Translational psychiatry · 2026Article
- Adverse childhood experiences and adult stress eating.Research square · 2025Article
- Have we been overlooking a critical confounder? Time to address adverse childhood experiences in nutrition and chronic disease epidemiology.Public health nutrition · 2025Article
- The long-term effects of adverse childhood experiences on adult health and behaviors: mediating role of socioeconomic inequality.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Association between adverse childhood experiences and masculinity with well-being: moderating role of behavioural emotional regulation among men of three nations.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- The association between cumulative adverse childhood experiences and ultra-processed food addiction is moderated by substance use disorder history among adults seeking outpatient nutrition counseling.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
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Abstract
objectiveThis study assesses the relationship between adverse childhood experiences (ACE) occurring before the age of 18 years and patterns of fast-food consumption and sugary beverage consumption in adulthood. The study also examines how perceived stress and socio-economic status (SES) (college educational attainment and income) in adulthood mediate this relationship.
designUsing data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adulthood Health (
settingPersons living in the USA in 2016-2018.
participantsAdults (
resultsThe findings show an association between four or more ACE and high fast-food (relative risk ratio (RRR) = 1·436, 95 % CI = 1·040, 1·983) and high sugary beverage consumption (RRR = 1·435, 95 % CI = 1·002, 2·055). The association between ACE and high fast-food consumption is partially mediated by college educational attainment, and the association between ACE and high sugary beverage consumption is partially mediated by perceived stress and college educational attainment.
conclusionsACE can have long-term consequences for unhealthy dietary behaviours in adulthood, and this relationship is partially due to a lower likelihood of higher perceived stress and college educational attainment among ACE-exposed persons. Future research is needed to understand further the influence of ACE on dietary patterns over the life course.
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