Exploring Pathways between Internalized Weight Bias, Eating Disorder Psychopathology, and Weight Loss Expectations in Treatment-Seeking Adults with Binge Eating and Obesity.

Purpose: Individuals with obesity and binge eating face weight stigma, which can lead to internalized weight bias (IWB), reinforce eating disorder (ED) pathology, and promote unrealistic weight loss expectations (WLE). Greater understanding of pathways between IWB, ED pathology, and WLE could inform interventions to promote healthy WLE and reduce IWB. This study explored pathways through which IWB directly and indirectly relates to eating pathology and WLE in treatment-seeking adults with obesity and recurrent binge eating.

Partnering With Food Pantries to Disseminate and Implement Eating Disorder Interventions.

Objective: Food insecurity is associated with eating disorder psychopathology. This Spotlight describes why food pantries could be promising partners for disseminating and implementing eating disorder interventions.

Method: Researchers are increasingly collaborating with community-based organizations to improve access to health interventions, because community-based organizations overcome structural barriers to traditional healthcare by being embedded physically in the communities they serve, convenient to visit, regularly frequented, and led by trusted community members.