Picky Eaters Improved Diet Quality in a Randomized Behavioral Intervention Trial in Youth with Type 1 Diabetes.

Background: Children who are picky eaters typically demonstrate persistent food refusal and poor diet quality and may be resistant to intervention.

Objective: This study tested whether pickiness moderated the effect of a nutrition intervention on diet quality in youth with type 1 diabetes, hypothesizing that the intervention effect would be smaller among picky relative to nonpicky eaters.

Design: The study was an 18-month randomized clinical trial.

The Impact of E-diaries and Accelerometers on Young Adults' Perceived and Objectively Assessed Physical Activity.

Objective: E-diaries and accelerometers promise more objective, real-time measurements of health behavior. However, social-psychological theory suggests that using electronic behavioral monitoring may influence rather than just record physical activity (PA), especially when a device is novel.

Design: Participants (n=146) were randomly assigned to either an accelerometer-only, e-diary-only, accelerometer+e-diary, or a no-technology control group for one week to assess how these technologies influenced PA, both perceived and actual, in young adults.

Starving for a drink: Sexual objectification is associated with food-restricted alcohol consumption among college women, but not among men.

Interpersonal sexual objectification, or being treated as an object by others, is linked to poorer body image and, in turn, engagement in weight management behaviors that promote conformity to unrealistic appearance standards while simultaneously undermining health. Although these associations emerge consistently among women, the evidence has been less clear among men. The present study introduced a novel weight control behavior, food-restricted alcohol consumption (i.

Parent healthful eating attitudes and motivation are prospectively associated with dietary quality among youth with type 1 diabetes.

A family-based behavioral nutrition intervention grounded in Social Cognitive and Self-Determination Theories showed an increased intake of whole plant foods. This study examined 1) whether the intervention changed parent diet-related attitudes/beliefs, 2) whether these attitudes/beliefs were associated with youth diet quality, and 3) the moderating roles of youth age and parent nutritional knowledge. Youth with type 1 diabetes and their parents (n = 136, mean ± SD youth age = 12.

Can Families Eat Better Without Spending More? Improving Diet Quality Does Not Increase Diet Cost in a Randomized Clinical Trial among Youth with Type 1 Diabetes and Their Parents.

Background: Although cost is a frequently cited barrier to healthful eating, limited prospective data exist.

Objective: To examine the association of diet cost with diet quality change.

Design: An 18-month randomized clinical trial evaluated a dietary intervention.

I Should but I Can't: Controlled Motivation and Self-Efficacy Are Related to Disordered Eating Behaviors in Adolescents With Type 1 Diabetes.

Purpose: Among adolescents with type 1 diabetes, disordered eating behaviors (DEBs) are more prevalent and have more serious health implications than in adolescents without diabetes, necessitating identification of modifiable correlates of DEB in this population. This study hypothesized that (1) autonomous motivation and (2) controlled motivation for healthy eating (i.e.

Greater Food Reward Sensitivity Is Associated with More Frequent Intake of Discretionary Foods in a Nationally Representative Sample of Young Adults.

Food reward sensitivity may influence individual susceptibility to an environment replete with highly palatable foods of minimal nutritional value. These foods contain combinations of added sugar, fat, and/or salt that may enhance their motivational salience. This study examined associations of food reward sensitivity with eating behaviors in the NEXT Generation Health Study, a nationally representative sample of U.

"It runs in my family …": The association of perceived family history with body dissatisfaction and weight bias internalization among overweight women.

Aspects of poor body acceptance (BA), such as internalized weight bias and dissatisfaction with one's shape and size, are the strongest predictors of disordered eating and are associated with reduced engagement in healthy behaviors. Perceiving oneself as having a family history of overweight (PFH) could boost BA by increasing attributions for inherited, biological causes of weight. A community sample of 289 women who were overweight from the Washington, DC metropolitan area who were dissatisfied with their current weight (68% Black; 32% White) enrolled in this study in 2012.

"Drunkorexia": exploring the who and why of a disturbing trend in college students' eating and drinking behaviors.

Objective: "Drunkorexia," limiting food intake before alcohol consumption, increases college students' risk for negative alcohol-related health consequences. The current study tested whether (1) women engage in drunkorexia more frequently than men; (2) weight control motivations explain sex differences in drunkorexia; and (3) among women, weight control motivations are a particularly strong predictor of drunkorexia for heavier drinkers.

Participants: Undergraduate males and females (N = 63) recruited during fall of 2011.

Changes in quality of life and body image after gastric bypass surgery.

Background: Improvements in psychosocial status are an important aspect of successful outcomes after bariatric surgery. Relatively few studies have investigated the changes in psychosocial functioning at a number of points in the first few postoperative years. The present study was undertaken to assess the changes in quality of life and body image after gastric bypass surgery.

Self-reported stigmatization among candidates for bariatric surgery.

The popularity of bariatric surgery has increased the focus on the psychological aspects of extreme obesity. Although a growing literature has documented the psychosocial burden associated with extreme obesity, surprisingly little attention has been paid to the experience of weight-related stigmatization among extremely obese individuals. The present study investigated self-reported experiences of weight-related stigmatization, weight-related quality of life, and depressive symptoms among 117 extremely obese individuals (BMI = 48.