ArticleEating behaviors2017
Contextual factors associated with eating in the absence of hunger among adults with obesity.
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- Emotional Eating among College Students in Israel: A Study during Times of War.Foods (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Associations of timing of food intake with energy intake, eating behaviour traits and psychosocial factors in adults with overweight and obesity.Frontiers in nutrition · 2023Article
- Added flavors: potential contributors to body weight gain and obesity?BMC medicine · 2022Article
- Impact of Eating Context on Dietary Choices of College Students: Evidence from the HEALTHY-UNICT Project.Nutrients · 2022Article
- Factors associated with food choice among long-term weight loss maintainers.Journal of human nutrition and dietetics : the official journal of the British Dietetic Association · 2022Article
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- Descriptives and baseline ecological momentary assessed predictors of weight change over the course of psychological treatments for binge eating disorder.Journal of psychosomatic research · 2021Article
- Using pre-prandial blood glucose to assess eating in the absence of hunger in free-living individuals.Eating behaviors · 2020Observational
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Abstract
Eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) is under-explored in adults with obesity. In this study, 50 adults with obesity recorded eating episodes and theoretically-relevant environmental, perceptual, and emotional correlates in the natural environment for 2weeks via ecological momentary assessment (EMA). Generalized linear models and mixed models were used to characterize correlates and consequences of EAH vs. non-EAH episodes/tendencies (within-subjects and between-subjects effects, respectively), time of day, and time of day×EAH interactions. Approximately 21% of EMA-recorded eating episodes involved EAH, and 70% of participants reported at least 1 EAH episode. At the within-person level, participants' EAH episodes were associated with greater self-labeled overeating than their non-EAH episodes. At the between-person level, participants who tended to engage in more EAH reported less self-labeled overeating than those who engaged in less EAH. Across EAH and non-EAH episodes, eating in the evening was associated with overeating, expecting eating to be more rewarding, greater alcoholic beverage consumption, eating alone, eating because others are eating, and eating while watching television. Significant EAH×time of day interactions were also observed but the pattern of findings was not consistent. Findings suggest that EAH may be a relevant target for reducing food intake in individuals with obesity given its high prevalence and association with perceptions of overeating, although results should be extended using objective measures of food intake. Associations between evening eating episodes and perceptual and environmental factors should be further explored.
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