ArticleObesity (Silver Spring, Md.)2014
Meal skipping linked to increased visceral adipose tissue and triglycerides in overweight minority youth.
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- Association of Types of Meal Skipping with Cardio-metabolic Risk Factors in Korean Adults: The 7th Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (2016-2018).Korean journal of family medicine · 2024Article
- Age-specific association between meal-skipping patterns and the risk of hyperglycemia in Korean adults: a national cross-sectional study using the KNHANES data.BMC public health · 2024Article
- Gender differences in body composition, dietary patterns, and physical activity: insights from a cross-sectional study.Frontiers in nutrition · 2024Article
- Eating Speed, Eating Frequency, and Their Relationships with Diet Quality, Adiposity, and Metabolic Syndrome, or Its Components.Nutrients · 2021Review
- Why Do Men Accumulate Abdominal Visceral Fat?Frontiers in physiology · 2019Article
- Successful weight loss initiation and maintenance among adolescents with overweight and obesity: does age matter?Clinical obesity · 2018Article
- Decreased eating frequency linked to increased visceral adipose tissue, body fat, and BMI in Hispanic college freshmen.BMC nutrition · 2018Article
- Increased eating frequency linked to decreased obesity and improved metabolic outcomes.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2015Article
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Abstract
objectiveTo investigate the impact of eating frequency on dietary intake, physical activity (PA), metabolic, and adiposity measures in minority youth.
methodsThis analysis included 185 overweight (≥85th BMI percentile) Hispanic and African-American youth (8-18 years) with the following cross-sectional measures: height, weight, BMI, dietary intake, body composition, metabolic parameters, PA, visceral adipose tissue (VAT), and subcutaneous adipose tissue. Each eating occasion (EO) was defined as ≥50 calories and ≥15 minutes from any previous EO. Participants were dichotomized based on EOs per 24-h into meal skippers <3 EO (MS; n = 27) or normal/frequent eaters ≥3 EO (NFE; n = 158). ANCOVAs were used to assess dietary intakes, metabolic outcomes, adiposity, and PA between eating frequency groups.
resultsMS compared to NFE consumed 24% fewer calories per 24-h (P ≤ 0.01), 21% more calories per EO (P ≤ 0.01), ate 40% less often (P ≤ 0.01), had 18% higher triglycerides (P = 0.03), and 26% more VAT (P = 0.03), with no differences in PA.
conclusionsAlthough meal skipping was associated with decreased energy intake, it was linked to increased calories per EO and higher triglycerides and VAT, which are strong indicators of deleterious metabolic profiles. These findings elucidate that meal skipping may be associated with increased VAT and related metabolic diseases in high-risk minority youth.
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