SynthesisNutrients2022
Factors Associated with Eating in the Absence of Hunger among Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review.
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- Inter-individual differences in children's short-term energy compensation: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The American journal of clinical nutrition · 2023Pooled it
- Eating behavior of adolescent girls in countries with a high prevalence of stunting under five: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
- Genetic associations with consumption of palatable foods in the absence of hunger in response to food cues in children.Pediatric obesity · 2025Trial
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- The relationship between parental feeding practices and children's health-related quality of life.Frontiers in nutrition · 2026Article
- Children's satiety responsiveness moderates the association between food reinforcement and eating in the absence of hunger.Physiology & behavior · 2025Article
- Review of Disordered Eating Behaviors in Cystic Fibrosis.Life (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- Eating in the Absence of Hunger in Hispanic Preschoolers: Relationships with Child Sex, Food Preference, and Weight Status.Nutrients · 2025Article
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- Lower subjective social status is associated with increased adiposity and self-reported eating in the absence of hunger due to negative affect among children reporting teasing distress.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2024Article
- PACE: a Novel Eating Behavior Phenotype to Assess Risk for Obesity in Middle Childhood.The Journal of nutrition · 2024Article
- Structural Connectivity between Olfactory Tubercle and Ventrolateral Periaqueductal Gray Implicated in Human Feeding Behavior.The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience · 2024Article
- Biobehavioral susceptibility for obesity in childhood: Behavioral, genetic and neuroimaging studies of appetite.Physiology & behavior · 2023Review
- Switching between foods: A potential behavioral phenotype of hedonic hunger and increased obesity risk in children.Physiology & behavior · 2023Article
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Abstract
Eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) has been extensively studied over the past two decades and has been associated with excess body weight and the development of obesity. However, determinants of EAH remain uncertain. This systematic review aims to identify individual, familial, and environmental factors associated with EAH among children and adolescents. We included studies with a measure of EAH in participants aged 3-17 years old and including ≥1 factor associated with EAH. Our search identified 1494 articles. Of these, we included 81 studies: 53 cross-sectional, 19 longitudinal and nine intervention studies. In childhood (≤12 years old), EAH increases with age, it is greater in boys compared to girls, and it is positively associated with adiposity. Moreover, EAH development seems to be influenced by genetics. In adolescence, the number of studies is limited; yet, studies show that EAH slightly increases or remains stable with age, is not clearly different between sexes, and findings for overweight or obesity are less consistent across studies in adolescence. For familial factors, parental restrictive feeding practices are positively associated with EAH during childhood, mostly for girls. Studies assessing environmental factors are lacking and robust longitudinal studies spanning from early childhood to adolescence are needed.
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