Eating habits in relation to body fatness and gender in adolescents -- results from the 'SWEDES' study

Objective: To investigate if eating habits among adolescents are related to body fatness and gender. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Obesity Unit, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden, 2001-2002. Subjects: Two hundred and seventy-five girls and 199 boys, aged 16-17 years. Method: Questionnai...

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Published in:European journal of clinical nutrition 2007-04, Vol.61 (4), p.517-525
Main Authors: Vagstrand, K, Barkeling, B, Forslund, H.B, Elfhag, K, Linne, Y, Rossner, S, Lindroos, A.K
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adipose Tissue - metabolism
Adolescent
adolescent nutrition
Adolescent Nutrition Physiology
Adolescent Nutritional Physiological Phenomena
Adolescents
Biological and medical sciences
Body Composition - physiology
Body fat
Body weight
boys
Breakfast cereals
Cereals
Children & youth
Choice Behavior
Clinical Nutrition
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diet
Diet Surveys
Dietary intake
dietary surveys
Diseases of the digestive system
Eating
Eating behavior
eating habits
Energy intake
Energy Intake - physiology
Epidemiology
Feeding Behavior
Female
Food Habits
Food intake
Frequency analysis
Fruits
Gender
gender differences
girls
Habits
Humans
Internal Medicine
Male
Meals
MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES
Medical sciences
MEDICIN OCH HÄLSOVETENSKAP
Medicine
Medicine & Public Health
Metabolic Diseases
Milk
Obesity
Obesity - epidemiology
original-article
Overweight
Public Health
Questionnaires
Radiotherapy. Instrumental treatment. Physiotherapy. Reeducation. Rehabilitation, orthophony, crenotherapy. Diet therapy and various other treatments (general aspects)
Sex Factors
Stockholm Weight Development Study
Sugar
Surveys and Questionnaires
Sweden - epidemiology
Teenagers
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Summary:Objective: To investigate if eating habits among adolescents are related to body fatness and gender. Design: Cross-sectional study. Setting: Obesity Unit, Huddinge University Hospital, Sweden, 2001-2002. Subjects: Two hundred and seventy-five girls and 199 boys, aged 16-17 years. Method: Questionnaires were used for dietary intake and meal frequency, BodPod for measuring body fatness (BF%). In all, 169 girls and 128 boys were classified as adequate reporters (AR) of energy intake, and were used in the dietary analyses. The whole sample was used in the meal frequency analyses. Results: The correlation between reported energy intake and weight in the AR group was 0.23 (P
ISSN:0954-3007
1476-5640
DOI:10.1038/sj.ejcn.1602539