The role of eating frequency on relative weight in urban school-age children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

The role of eating frequency on relative weight in childhood is not well understood.

Objective

To clarify this relationship by assessing the cross-sectional and prospective relationships of weekday eating frequency with BMI z-score (BMIz) and change in BMIz in a sample of schoolchildren.

Methods

Eating frequency, the average number of reported daily eating occasions, was assessed using two weekday 24-h diet recalls. BMIz was measured at baseline, 6 months and 1 year in 155 urban schoolchildren, ages 9-15 years. Multiple linear regression models were used.

Results

Cross-sectional analyses at baseline suggest that BMIz was 0.23 units lower for each additional reported eating occasion (regression coefficient = -0.23; 95% confidence interval [CI]: -0.44,

SUBMITTER: Evans EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4495000 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature