Characterizing cheat meals among a national sample of Canadian adolescents and young adults.

ABSTRACT:

Background

"Cheat meals", described as brief eating episodes that depart from established dietary practices to consume prohibited foods, represent a novel and increasingly common eating behavior with particular salience in adolescence and young adulthood. However, knowledge gaps remain regarding the frequency and characterization of foods and calories consumed during cheat meals, and their associations with eating disorder behaviors and psychopathology. Thus, the aims of this study were to delineate engagement in cheat meals among a large, national sample of Canadian adolescents and young adults.

Methods

Participants (N = 2,717) were from the Canadian Study of Adolescent Health Behaviors. Frequencies of engagement in cheat meals, and associated foods and calories consumed, i

SUBMITTER: Ganson KT 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9357326 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature