The Impact of Eating Disorders and Emotional Eating on Health
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Nutrition and Metabolism".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 5 October 2026 | Viewed by 1043
Special Issue Editor
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
This Special Issue prioritizes applying a public health lens across the continuum from emotional and stress-related eating to dysregulated eating and clinical eating disorders, emphasizing population impact, prevention, intervention, and policy. We welcome studies that map risk trajectories and inflection points across the human lifespan, quantify prevalence and burden in communities, and examine social determinants (stressors, food insecurity, marketing, etc.) that shape eating under distress. Epidemiologic studies linking emotional/dysregulated eating to clinical outcomes and population burden—across cohorts and life stages—are especially encouraged, including associations with weight, adiposity, metabolic risk, and mental health.
Methodological contributions on standardizing emotional eating measures; integrating psychometric, laboratory, and daily-life data; and advancing digital just-in-time interventions are encouraged, with attention to inclusive, cross-cultural validation and equity. We also seek research connecting dietary guidelines and sustainable food systems with strategies to buffer stress-related eating, as well as brief, scalable policy-and-systems approaches in schools, workplaces, and communities.
Submissions may include original research, systematic/scoping reviews, meta-analyses, policy evaluations, and practice reports that translate mechanisms of learning, cue reactivity, and emotion regulation into population-level prevention, early detection/screening, and care pathways for eating disorders.
Dr. Kwangyeol Baek
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- emotional eating
- stress-related eating
- dysregulated eating
- binge eating
- eating disorders
- public health
- mental health
- social determinants of health
- obesity
- behavioral change
- digital health
- ecological momentary assessment (EMA)
- digital just-in-time interventions (JITAI)
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