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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Veröffentlicht in:	European journal of clinical nutrition 2007-04, Vol.61 (4), p.517-525
Hauptverfasser:	Vagstrand, K, Barkeling, B, Forslund, H.B, Elfhag, K, Linne, Y, Rossner, S, Lindroos, A.K
Format:	Artikel
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	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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Zusammenfassung:	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