Research paper
Gerber S, Folta SC. You Are What You Eat… But Do You Eat What You Are? The Role of Identity in Eating Behaviors—A Scoping Review. Nutrients. 2022;14(17):3456. doi:10.3390/nu14173456. PMCID: PMC9458161.
Why we cite it
The definitive scoping review on identity and eating behavior — 100 articles spanning 76 years (1946-2022), finding that identity was significantly related to eating behavior in 99 of 100 studies. This near-universal finding provides the strongest possible evidence base for the project's identity-based approach. Also reveals that identity measurement quality is generally poor (mean 2.9/5) and identity remains underutilized in eating interventions, suggesting this is an evidence-supported but underexploited lever. Synthesizes and validates the individual findings from cib01-05.