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 |
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Rok vydání: | 2013 |
Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Meal Nutrition and Dietetics Calorie Intra-Abdominal Fat Cholesterol Cross-sectional study business.industry Endocrinology Diabetes and Metabolism Medicine (miscellaneous) Adipose tissue 030209 endocrinology & metabolism Overweight 03 medical and health sciences chemistry.chemical_compound 0302 clinical medicine Endocrinology chemistry Internal medicine medicine 030212 general & internal medicine medicine.symptom business Body mass index |
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 |
Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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