Parental Weight Stigma Associated with Self-Directed Weight Talk and Use of Health-Related Restrictive Feeding Practices.

Background: Parents are important conduits of weight- and health-related messaging. Weight-related communication and approaches to child feeding used by parents may reflect their past experiences with weight stigma and are understudied pathways through which intergenerational weight stigma may be transmitted.

Objective: To examine how experienced and internalized weight stigma among parents of children with higher weights are associated with weight-related communication and the feeding practices they use.

Identifying methods used to manage weight and shape by first year university students: A qualitative analysis.

Objective: To identify current strategies used by first-year university students to lose weight, maintain weight, or change their body shape.

Methods: First-year university students (n = 661) completed an open-ended, web-based survey. Cross-sectional data were analyzed qualitatively using a reflexive thematic approach to identify strategies used to lose weight, maintain weight, or alter body shape/composition.

Weight-inclusive, intuitive eating-based workplace wellness program associated with improvements in intuitive eating, eating disorder symptoms, internalized weight stigma, and diet quality.

Introduction: The use of weight-inclusive programming within a workplace wellness context remains understudied.

Methods: The present study is a pilot/feasibility study of a 3-month, virtual, weight-inclusive, intuitive eating-based workplace wellness program. Program participants (n = 114), who were all employees at a large public university in the Midwest, received weekly emails with a link to an instructional video related to intuitive eating and were encouraged to meet virtually with their health coach.

Federal Food Program Participation and Beverage Intake Among Families With Low Household Income.

Objective: Examine beverage intake among families with low income by household participation in federal food assistance programs.

Design: Cross-sectional study conducted in fall/winter 2020 via an online survey.

Participants: Mothers of young children insured by Medicaid at the time of the child's birth (N = 493).

Breakfast in the Classroom Initiative Does Not Improve Attendance or Standardized Test Scores among Urban Students: A Cluster Randomized Trial.

Background: The Breakfast in the Classroom (BIC) initiative, a common approach to implementing the federal School Breakfast Program, is advocated as a method to improve students' academic performance. However, the influences of BIC on academic outcomes are unclear.

Objective: To examine the effect of a BIC initiative which provided free, universal BIC on attendance and standardized test performance over 2.

Maternal executive function and the family food environment.

The family food environment plays an important role in supporting children's dietary quality, regulating eating behaviors, and promoting a healthy weight status. However, relatively little is known regarding parent-level factors that support or hinder parents' ability to create health-promoting family food environments. The current study examines whether executive function among mothers, or mothers' capacity to control their thoughts, emotions, and actions, is associated with qualities of the family food environment that support children's healthy eating and weight.

Binge eating-related concerns and depressive symptoms in young adulthood: Seven-year longitudinal associations and differences by race/ethnicity.

Objective: To examine longitudinal associations between binge eating-related concerns (i.e., cognitions associated with binge eating, such as embarrassment over amount eaten and fear of losing control over eating) and depressive symptoms among U.

Approaches to restrictive feeding: Associations with child weight and eating behavior.

Background: Identifying differences in how mothers communicate restriction of their children's eating may be important to understanding the effects of restriction on children's intake and weight status.

Objectives: To characterize mothers' restrictive statements by affect and directness, and examine cross-sectional associations between restrictive statement types and children's body mass index and eating behaviors.

Methods: Mother-child dyads (N = 223, mean child age 5.