Food Insecurity and Age at Menarche in Tampa Bay, Florida

Burris, Mecca; Miller, Elizabeth M.; Romero‐Daza, Nancy; Himmelgreen, David

doi:10.1080/03670244.2020.1727464

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“…Taken together, these findings support the possible causal relationship between food insecurity and delayed menarche that we discovered. Noteworthy, this connection was denied by a cross-sectional study conducted in the US [ 29 ]. This discrepancy might be ascribed to the fact that in affluent countries, food insecurity is more related to unhealthy food like fried food and sugared drinks.…”

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Diet and Nutrients Intakes during Infancy and Childhood in Relation to Early Puberty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Tang

Xue

Huang³

et al. 2022

Nutrients

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The onset of puberty has become earlier over the decades, and nutrients and diet are related to the timing of puberty onset. Hence, we aimed to investigate the association between diet or nutrients in infancy, childhood and early puberty. PubMed, Embase, and Cochrane library were searched systematically up to 15 April 2022. The pooled relative risks (RRs) or regression coefficients (beta) were estimated using the random-effect model or fixed-effect model according to the heterogeneity between studies. Twenty-two articles on diet or nutrients in childhood and six about breastfeeding in infancy were included. The prolonged breastfeeding duration in infancy could reduce the risk of early menarche (beta 0.31, 95% CI: 0.01, 0.60, p = 0.045). The high intake of yogurt was associated with a 35% reduction in the risk of earlier menarche (RR 0.65, 95% CI: 0.47, 0.89, p = 0.008). Girls with severe food insecurity experienced later menarche (RR 0.81, 95% CI: 0.67, 0.98, p = 0.027). Conversely, due to the high intake of protein, the risk of early menarche increased by 8% (RR 1.08, 95% CI: 1.01, 1.16, p = 0.016). High intake of yogurt, longer duration of breastfeeding, and food insecurity decreased the possibility of earlier menarche, while high intake of protein increased that risk. As a modifiable factor, diet and nutrients in infancy and childhood provide new insights into the future prevention of early puberty.

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Diet and Nutrients Intakes during Infancy and Childhood in Relation to Early Puberty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Tang

Xue

Huang³

et al. 2022

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“…[ 37 38 ] Food secure girls were more likely to have early menarche in a recent report from United states. [ 39 ] Whenever children experience severe environmental stress such as malnutrition or disease, maturation is delayed until conditions improve. Severe primary or secondary malnutrition also can delay the onset and progression of puberty.…”

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Menarche among rural adolescent girls in Dervan (Data from the KONKAN region of the state of Maharashtra, India)

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Joglekar²,

Mohite³

et al. 2020

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“…Recently, there has been growing interest in using a LHT framework to examine the physiological and behavioral effects of FI specifically. Burris et al [ 34 ], for example, recently demonstrated that females in food insecure households are 4.4 times more likely to experience earlier age of menache than females in food secure households—a potential example of a faster life history strategy when exposed to resource insecure environments.…”

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Food insecurity, diet and mental distress among resource insecure students during COVID-19

Kopels

Roulette

2023

Evolution, Medicine, and Public Health

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It is well documented that college student populations are vulnerable to food insecurity and other adverse environmental conditions. Additionally, exposure to environmental adversity can have deleterious, long-term effects on physical and mental health. This study applies evolutionary life history theory to examine the relationship between environmental adversity, mental distress, and diet among resource insecure university students during the COVID-19 pandemic. Structured and semi-structured surveys were used to assess perceptions of environmental adversity (including mortality risk, food insecurity, and resource availability; and changes in these over the course of COVID-19), mental distress, diet, and use of campus support services. Participants included 51 college students recruited through an economic crisis response center located at a large public university in southern California. Most students were experiencing mental distress and food insecurity, and food insecurity and other components of adversity increased during COVID-19. Food insecurity was significantly associated with both perceived extrinsic mortality risk and mental distress, whereas mental distress was significantly associated with reduced dietary quality and caloric intake. Use of two or more campus support resources and/or living with family or rent-free disrupted the associations of food insecurity with extrinsic mortality risk and mental distress. This study contributes to a growing body of applied evolutionary frameworks concerned with the health and wellbeing of economically vulnerable populations. It also provides novel insights – informed by life history theory – into interventions and recommendations for improving support services for financially insecure college students.

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Food Insecurity and Age at Menarche in Tampa Bay, Florida

Cited by 14 publications

References 69 publications

Diet and Nutrients Intakes during Infancy and Childhood in Relation to Early Puberty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Diet and Nutrients Intakes during Infancy and Childhood in Relation to Early Puberty: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Menarche among rural adolescent girls in Dervan (Data from the KONKAN region of the state of Maharashtra, India)

Food insecurity, diet and mental distress among resource insecure students during COVID-19

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