ArticleThe British journal of nutrition2017
Faster eating rates are associated with higher energy intakes during an ad libitum meal, higher BMI and greater adiposity among 4·5-year-old children: results from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes (GUSTO) cohort.
Article in The British journal of nutrition, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07095166 (Monitoring Eating Across Locations), which is not on this map. Cited by 55 papers, 4 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Monitoring Eating Across Locations (MEAL) - Timing, Intake, and Mealtime Evaluation (TIME)
Who cites it
55 citing papers in PubMed, 4 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 113 citations in OpenAlex.
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- Caregiver feeding practices for infants and toddlers and their eating behaviors in Singapore.Frontiers in nutrition · 2025Article
- PACE: a Novel Eating Behavior Phenotype to Assess Risk for Obesity in Middle Childhood.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Child eating behaviors are consistently linked to intake across meals that vary in portion size.Appetite · 2024Article
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- Eating Habits and Lifestyle Factors Related to Childhood Obesity Among Children Aged 5-6 Years: Cluster Analysis of Panel Survey Data in Korea.JMIR public health and surveillance · 2024Article
- Cross-sectional and prospective associations between children's eating behavior and visceral fat area and trunk fat mass.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2024Article
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Abstract
Faster eating rates are associated with increased energy intake, but little is known about the relationship between children's eating rate, food intake and adiposity. We examined whether children who eat faster consume more energy and whether this is associated with higher weight status and adiposity. We hypothesised that eating rate mediates the relationship between child weight and ad libitum energy intake. Children (n 386) from the Growing Up in Singapore Towards Healthy Outcomes cohort participated in a video-recorded ad libitum lunch at 4·5 years to measure acute energy intake. Videos were coded for three eating-behaviours (bites, chews and swallows) to derive a measure of eating rate (g/min). BMI and anthropometric indices of adiposity were measured. A subset of children underwent MRI scanning (n 153) to measure abdominal subcutaneous and visceral adiposity. Children above/below the median eating rate were categorised as slower and faster eaters, and compared across body composition measures. There was a strong positive relationship between eating rate and energy intake (r 0·61, P<0·001) and a positive linear relationship between eating rate and children's BMI status. Faster eaters consumed 75 % more energy content than slower eating children (Δ548 kJ (Δ131 kcal); 95 % CI 107·6, 154·4, P<0·001), and had higher whole-body (P<0·05) and subcutaneous abdominal adiposity (Δ118·3 cc; 95 % CI 24·0, 212·7, P=0·014). Mediation analysis showed that eating rate mediates the link between child weight and energy intake during a meal (b 13·59; 95 % CI 7·48, 21·83). Children who ate faster had higher energy intake, and this was associated with increased BMI z-score and adiposity.
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