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Does hunger and satiety drive eating anymore? Increasing eating occasions and decreasing time between eating occasions in the United States

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Popkin, Barry M, Duffey, Kiyah J·2010·The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

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Background The design of dietary, metabolic, and intervention studies should reflect the meal patterning of free-living individuals, but this design has not been systematically reviewed recently.Objective Our objective was to examine meal-patterning trends [meals and snacks, termed eating occasions (EOs)] in a sample of US children and adults.Design This was a nationally representative cross-sectional study of US data sets from 1977 to 1978, 1994 to 1998, and 2003 to 2006 in 28,404 children (2-18 y of age) and 36,846 adults (> or = 19 y of age). The main outcomes of interest included the number and size (energy/d) of meal and snack EOs, the composition (food or beverage) of each EO, and the time interval between each EO.Results The number of EOs increased over the previous 30 y among all ages. For adults and children, the change in the number of EOs from 1977 to 2006 was greatest for those in the 75th and 90th percentiles, although the mean number increased across all percentiles. Energy intake, particularly from snacking, increased for both groups in all percentiles of the distribution. The time between EOs decreased by 1 h for adults and children (to 3.0 and 3.5 h in 2003-2006, respectively). Overwhelmingly, meals consisted of both food and beverages, but the percentage of snacking occasions that consisted of beverages only increased considerably among children.Conclusions US children and adults are consuming foods more frequently throughout the day than they did 30 y ago. Researchers undertaking future clinical, preload, and related food studies need to consider these marked shifts as they attempt to design their research to fit the reality of the eating patterns of free-living individuals.

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Authors
Popkin, B. M., & Duffey, K. J.
Affiliations
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (US)
Venue
The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2010-05
Volume
91
Issue
5
Pages
1342-1347
ISSN
0002-9165 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W2066991751
Cited by
157
References
44
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FWCI
14.57
Type
journal article
Language
en
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Locations
  • American Journal of Clinical Nutrition (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • Purdue University
  • National Institutes of Health (2r24hd050924-06)
  • National Cancer Institute (R01CA121152, R01CA109831)
  • National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (P30ES010126)
  • Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24 HD-050924)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Nursing › Nutrition and Dietetics › Nutrition, Health and Food Behavior
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Nutritional Studies and Diet
Keywords
eating occasions, snacking, meal frequency, dietary trends, children, adults, energy intake, beverage consumption, meal composition, preload, research design
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Adult, Beverages, Energy Intake, Child, Child, Preschool, Cross-Sectional Studies, Feeding Behavior, Food, Humans, Hunger, Nutrition Surveys, Satiety Response, Time Factors, United States, United States Department of Agriculture, Young Adult

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