Cumulative Household Food Insecurity Is Associated with Adverse Eating Behaviors Among Youth Exposed to Gestational Diabetes in Utero
Keally Haushalter, Jaimie N. Davis, Myles S. Faith, Yeyi Zhu, Erin A. Hudson, Alexis S. King, Erica P. Gunderson · 2026
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Keally Haushalter and co-authors published this 2026 cohort study on whether years of household food insecurity shape how teenagers eat. The families came from the SWIFT study, 1,033 mothers whose pregnancies carried gestational diabetes, with 701 children re-examined at ages eleven to sixteen. Food security was scored at four visits spanning birth to adolescence, making the exposure cumulative rather than a snapshot.
The question is whether repeated scarcity, not a single lean spell, pushes eating toward or away from food in ways that feed weight gain. The study also tests whether breastfeeding intensity and duration in infancy soften that link. Earlier work mostly measured hunger and eating at one moment. The authors argue the long view matters: these children already carry elevated metabolic risk from before birth, so preventable behavior patterns deserve the fullest accounting.
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| CREATOR | Keally Haushalter, Jaimie N. Davis, Myles S. Faith, Yeyi Zhu, Erin A. Hudson, Alexis S. King, Erica P. Gunderson |
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| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 40 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |