Research Topic · Peer-Reviewed

Eating

Eating, in the health and nutrition sciences, denotes the behavioral and physiological act of food intake and the patterns surrounding it, encompassing both normal feeding and its pathological extremes. Eating disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions characterized by persistent disturbances in eating behavior…

Curated from this journal's research 📚 12 peer-reviewed articles cited Cited 83× across the literature 🔖 ISSN 2691-5014 🗓 Reviewed June 2026

Overview

Eating, in the health and nutrition sciences, denotes the behavioral and physiological act of food intake and the patterns surrounding it, encompassing both normal feeding and its pathological extremes. Eating disorders are a group of psychiatric conditions characterized by persistent disturbances in eating behavior and in the perception of body weight and shape, including anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge-eating disorder, and night eating syndrome; they carry substantial physical and psychological morbidity and, in severe cases, mortality. Beyond clinical disorders, eating behavior is shaped by appetite regulation, energy density of foods, cultural and dietary context, socioeconomic conditions, and psychological factors, and it underlies the development of obesity, undernutrition, and metabolic disease. Understanding when, what, and how individuals eat is therefore central to prevention and intervention across the lifespan. The peer-reviewed research collected here in the journal's pediatric health and nutrition corpus reflects these themes, including sleep monitoring and psychopathology in night eating syndrome with and without binge behaviors, barriers to healthy eating perceived by parents, longitudinal effects of dysfunctional attitudes on eating-disorder symptoms in children and adolescents, high-energy nutritional support in anorexia nervosa, food-energy-density approaches to weight management, dietary advice and pedagogy for better habits, cultural dimensions of diet, and the relationship between eating patterns and undernutrition.

Research published in this journal

12 peer-reviewed articles, ranked by relevance. Each links to its DOI.

How this research is being cited

The 12 articles above have been cited 83 times in the scholarly literature. Citation data via OpenAlex and Crossref, updated Jun 2026.

A sample of recent works citing this journal's research on Eating, linking to each citing work.

Editorial oversight

Curated from peer-reviewed research published in Pediatric Health And Nutrition (ISSN 2691-5014).

Journal editorial board
Narcis Flavius Tepeneu · Romania Ann Scheimann · United States Stefan Bittmann · Germany

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