Meal skipping linked to increased visceral adipose tissue and triglycerides in overweight minority youth

Autor: Lauren T. Cook, Jeremy M. Schraw, Donna Spruijt-Metz, Jaimie N. Davis, Marc J. Weigensberg, Michael I. Goran, Benjamin T. House, Lauren E. Gyllenhammer
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Obesity. 22:E77-E84
ISSN: 1930-7381
DOI: 10.1002/oby.20487
Popis: Objective To investigate the impact of eating frequency on dietary intake, physical activity (PA), metabolic, and adiposity measures in minority youth. Methods This 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
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