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Feeling ‘too fat’ rather than being ‘too fat’ increases unhealthy eating habits among adolescents – even in boys

Overview of attention for article published in Food & Nutrition Research, February 2016
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Title
Feeling ‘too fat’ rather than being ‘too fat’ increases unhealthy eating habits among adolescents – even in boys
Published in
Food & Nutrition Research, February 2016
DOI 10.3402/fnr.v60.29530
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Jolanda S. van Vliet, Per A. Gustafsson, Nina Nelson

Abstract

Adolescence is a period of gender-specific physical changes, during which eating habits develop. To better understand what factors determine unhealthy eating habits such as dieting to lose weight, skipping meals, and consumption of unhealthy foods, we studied how physical measurements and body perception relate to eating habits in boys and girls, before and during adolescence. For this cross-sectional study, we obtained data from both written questionnaires and physical measurements of height, weight, and waist circumference (WC). Dieting to lose weight and skipping breakfast were more common among adolescents than among younger boys and girls (p<0.05). The strongest risk factor for dieting in both boys and girls was perception of overweight, which persisted after adjusting for age and for being overweight (p<0.01). Another independent risk factor for dieting behaviour was overweight, as defined by body mass index (BMI) among boys (p<0.01) and WC among girls (p<0.05). In both boys and girls, skipping breakfast was associated with both a more negative body perception and higher BMI (p<0.05). Skipping breakfast was also associated with age- and gender-specific unhealthy eating habits such as skipping other meals, lower consumption of fruits and vegetables, and higher consumption of sweets and sugary drinks (p<0.05). Body perception among adolescents is an important factor relating to unhealthy eating habits, not only in girls, but even in boys. Focus on body perception and eating breakfast daily is crucial for the development of healthy food consumption behaviours during adolescence and tracking into adulthood.

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Country Count As %
Unknown 97 100%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Bachelor 18 19%
Student > Master 13 13%
Student > Ph. D. Student 8 8%
Student > Doctoral Student 7 7%
Researcher 5 5%
Other 22 23%
Unknown 24 25%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 21 22%
Medicine and Dentistry 21 22%
Psychology 11 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 5 5%
Social Sciences 3 3%
Other 9 9%
Unknown 27 28%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 7. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 15 June 2016.
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#5,141,226
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#199
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#72,802
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Outputs of similar age from Food & Nutrition Research
#7
of 35 outputs
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