TY - JOUR
T1 - Effects of eating behaviors on being overweight in Japanese university students
T2 - A cross-sectional survey at the Okayama University
AU - Ekuni, Daisuke
AU - Furuta, Michiko
AU - Tomofuji, Takaaki
AU - Irie, Koichiro
AU - Azuma, Tetsuji
AU - Iwasaki, Yoshiaki
AU - Morita, Manabu
N1 - Funding Information:
The author(s) disclosed receipt of the following financial support for the research, authorship, and/or publication of this article: This work was supported by Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research (23593089) from the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Tokyo, Japan and by the grant from the 8020 Promotion Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.
PY - 2013/7
Y1 - 2013/7
N2 - Being overweight is an important risk factor for lifestyle-related diseases. The objective of the present study was to examine whether eating until full, eating quickly, or both eating behaviors were associated with being overweight, defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25, in young adults. This cross-sectional survey comprised 1918 students (1139 male and 779 female students) at the Okayama University in Japan. In logistic regression analysis, eating until full was not associated with being overweight in either sex. The adjusted odds ratio of being overweight among those who reported eating quickly was 3.93 (2.45-6.31; P <.0001) for male and 1.59 (0.79-3.21; P =.193) for female students. Moreover, the adjusted odds ratio of being overweight was 2.72 (1.72-4.30; P <.001) in male students who frequently reported eating a fatty diet. The combination of eating quickly and frequently eating a fatty diet had a supra-additive effect on being overweight in the male students.
AB - Being overweight is an important risk factor for lifestyle-related diseases. The objective of the present study was to examine whether eating until full, eating quickly, or both eating behaviors were associated with being overweight, defined as a body mass index (BMI) ≥ 25, in young adults. This cross-sectional survey comprised 1918 students (1139 male and 779 female students) at the Okayama University in Japan. In logistic regression analysis, eating until full was not associated with being overweight in either sex. The adjusted odds ratio of being overweight among those who reported eating quickly was 3.93 (2.45-6.31; P <.0001) for male and 1.59 (0.79-3.21; P =.193) for female students. Moreover, the adjusted odds ratio of being overweight was 2.72 (1.72-4.30; P <.001) in male students who frequently reported eating a fatty diet. The combination of eating quickly and frequently eating a fatty diet had a supra-additive effect on being overweight in the male students.
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U2 - 10.1177/1010539511425702
DO - 10.1177/1010539511425702
M3 - Article
C2 - 22234828
AN - SCOPUS:84883022794
SN - 1010-5395
VL - 25
SP - 326
EP - 334
JO - Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
JF - Asia-Pacific Journal of Public Health
IS - 4
ER -
