In recent years, the body-positive movement has emerged on social media and has
generated both support and criticism in pop-cultural discourse. We review the potential …

Childhood obesity is one of the most serious public health challenges of the 21st century
with far-reaching and enduring adverse consequences for health outcomes. Over 42 million …

Objectives: We sought to estimate the prevalence of eating disorder symptoms in a large
sample of US college students and variations therein across student characteristics …

Obesity and eating disorders (EDs) are both prevalent in adolescents. There are concerns
that obesity prevention efforts may lead to the development of an ED. Most adolescents who …

Objective Social media sites, such as Facebook, merge two factors that influence risk for
eating disorders: media and peers. Previous work has identified cross‐sectional and …

Objective Establishing factors that protect against the onset of eating disorder symptoms is
needed to identify critical intervention targets to inform the design of more potent prevention …

The purpose of this systematic review and meta‐analysis was to estimate the prevalence of
personal weight control attempts (weight loss and/or maintenance) worldwide and to identify …

OBJECTIVE: We used meta-analytic methods to examine the frequency of shared family
mealtimes in relation to nutritional health in children and adolescents. The primary objective …

Weight-based teasing is common among youth, but little is known about its long-term impact
on health outcomes. We aimed to 1) identify whether weight-based teasing in adolescence …

Body dissatisfaction is common in adolescence and associated with negative outcomes (eg,
eating disorders). We identified common individual trajectories of body dissatisfaction from …