Faster eating rates are associated with higher energy intakes during an ad libitum meal, higher BMI and greater adiposity among 4·5-year-old children: results from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) cohort

Faster eating rates are associated with increased energy intake, but little is known about the relationship between children’s eating rate, food intake and adiposity. We examined whether children who eat faster consume more energy and whether this is associated with higher weight status and adiposit...

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Published in:British journal of nutrition 2017-04, Vol.117 (7), p.1042-1051
Main Authors: Fogel, Anna, Goh, Ai Ting, Fries, Lisa R., Sadananthan, Suresh A., Velan, S. Sendhil, Michael, Navin, Tint, Mya-Thway, Fortier, Marielle V., Chan, Mei Jun, Toh, Jia Ying, Chong, Yap-Seng, Tan, Kok Hian, Yap, Fabian, Shek, Lynette P., Meaney, Michael J., Broekman, Birit F. P., Lee, Yung Seng, Godfrey, Keith M., Chong, Mary F. F., Forde, Ciarán G.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Abdomen
Adipose tissue
Adiposity - ethnology
Age
Anthropometry
Appetite
Behavior
Behaviour, Appetite and Obesity
Body composition
Body Mass Index
Child Behavior - ethnology
Child Development
Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena - ethnology
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Cohort Studies
Diet - adverse effects
Diet - ethnology
Eating
Energy consumption
Energy intake
Energy Intake - ethnology
Energy measurement
Feeding Behavior - ethnology
Female
Food
Food intake
Health care
Hospitals
Humans
Lunch
Magnetic resonance imaging
Male
Mediation
Medicine
Metabolic disorders
Nutrition research
Nutrition Surveys
Obesity
Overweight - ethnology
Overweight - etiology
Pediatric Obesity - ethnology
Pediatric Obesity - etiology
Scanning
Science
Singapore
Time Factors
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Summary:Faster eating rates are associated with increased energy intake, but little is known about the relationship between children’s eating rate, food intake and adiposity. We examined whether children who eat faster consume more energy and whether this is associated with higher weight status and adiposity. We hypothesised that eating rate mediates the relationship between child weight and ad libitum energy intake. Children (n 386) from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes cohort participated in a video-recorded ad libitum lunch at 4·5 years to measure acute energy intake. Videos were coded for three eating-behaviours (bites, chews and swallows) to derive a measure of eating rate (g/min). BMI and anthropometric indices of adiposity were measured. A subset of children underwent MRI scanning (n 153) to measure abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adiposity. Children above/below the median eating rate were categorised as slower and faster eaters, and compared across body composition measures. There was a strong positive relationship between eating rate and energy intake (r 0·61, P
ISSN:0007-1145
1475-2662
DOI:10.1017/S0007114517000848