26 Eating while watching TV has generally been found to increase both immediate 27 and delayed energy intake. Here we examine two factors gender and habitual 28 processed-food intake – that may moderate these effects. Participants (n = 153; 95 29 women, 58 men; M age = 19.7 [SD = 2.9]; M BMI = 22.4 [SD = 3.1]) ate an ad30 libitum snack either with or without TV, followed around one hour later b...

Despite the potential link between snack food intake and obesity and the reportedly high prevalence of snacking among adolescents, adolescent snack food patterns (types of foods consumed, frequency and portion size) have not been extensively examined. This study examines these issues using data on the snacking patterns of adolescents aged 13-16 years who took part in the 1997 National Diet and ...

Research shows that many small changes to the environment impact one's eating behavior. The aim of this study was to examine whether the type of audio transmission would affect snack intake depending on the degree of immersion. A sample of 174 university students were randomized to either viewing a movie wearing headphones or listening over loud speakers while consuming a snack of their choice....

Food snack products were prepared by a combination of flour composition and ingredient recipes. A popular trend in replacing wheat flour with rice flour was proposed in the consumer food manufacturing industries for improvement in quality and nutritional value. The effect of variations in flour combination and sugar and fat replacers on the physical (texture and color) and chemical properties (...

Snack types of chips, biscuits are sold using packaging. The snack packaging contains important information related to the nutritional component snack, expiration date, product halalness and other that is for buyers know. Elementary school students have insufficient attention knowledge on so it can result in adverse conditions elementary if they consume snacks not good health. As a preventive s...

BACKGROUND Despite their good intentions, people often do not eat healthily. This is known as the intention-behavior gap. Although the intention-behavior relationship is theorized as a within-person process, most evidence is based on between-person differences. PURPOSE The purpose of the present study is to investigate the within-person intention-behavior association for unhealthy snack consu...

Stress has been known to change dietary behaviors and food intakes in individuals. The purpose of this study was to investigate the effect of stress level on the frequency and the amount of snack consumption. The high stress group (HS) showed significantly higher frequency of consumption for bread, chips, cookies, ramyeon, and frozen snacks (p<0.05) compared to low stress group (LS) with higher...

BACKGROUND While environmental and situational cues influence food intake, it is not always clear how they do so. We examine whether participants consume more when an eating occasion is associated with meal cues than with snack cues. We expect their perception of the type of eating occasion to mediate the amount of food they eat. In addition, we expect the effect of those cues on food intake to...

Introduction Brazil has been called a nation in nutrition transitional because of recent increases in the prevalence of obesity and related chronic diseases. With overweight conditions already prevalent among middle-income populations, there exists a need to identify factors that influence nutrition behavior within this group. Objective To address this subject, a research study was implemented ...

BACKGROUND Snack consumption has been reported to increase over recent decades. Little is known about possible associations between snack composition and snack eating location. In the present study, we aimed to describe the contribution of snacks to dietary intake in Norwegian adults and to investigate whether the composition of snacks differed according to where they were eaten. METHODS Diet...