OBJECTIVES To determine whether maternal attitude towards the family regularly eating together and maternal report of how often the family eat together are associated with adolescent offspring overweight. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES A cross-sectional mother-child-linked analysis was carried out using 14-year follow-up data from a population-based prospective birth cohort of 3795 children ...

BACKGROUND Gaining too much weight in pregnancy poses health risks for mother and child. Eating style has been shown to be related to weight gain in general but the relation to maternal weight gain in pregnancy is unclear. OBJECTIVES To assess the influence of eating style and psycho social factors on maternal weight gain. METHODS Healthy pregnant women (n = 161), filled in a questionnaire ...

Background: Cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are one of the major causes of mortality in the world. Incidence of such diseases has a direct relationship with lifestyle and nutrition. So, this study was conducted to investigate and compare knowledge, attitude, and self-efficacy of Kerman residents towards eating behaviors preventing CVD. Methods: In this descriptive-analytic cross-sectional study, ...

A sample of 400 college women, were selected to evaluate eating disorder among underweight, normal weight, overweight and obese college women. Age of the subjects was ranged from 18 to25 years. Body Mass Index of all the subjects was determined by dividing their body weight in kilogram by the height in meter2. On the basis of Body Mass Index (BMI), the subjects were divided into four categories...

BACKGROUND AND AIMS Exercise dependence (EXD) is considered a behavioral addiction that is often associated with eating disorders. To date, only few studies examined the potential overlap between EXD and other addictive behaviors. Therefore, the present study aimed at investigating the relationship of EXD with pathological buying, pathological video gaming (offline and online), hypersexual beha...

Objective: Orthorexia Nervosa/Healthy Eating Obsession is defined as a pathological obsession for consuming appropriate and healthy food. The aim of this study to determine the prevalence orthorexia nervosa in academicians working public university influencing factors. Methods: This was concluded between 01 January– March 2020 Nervosa its correlation with data were collected using Attitude Test...

OBJECTIVE The aim of the study was to investigate the relative importance of personal and social environmental predictors of the consumption of fruit, high-fat snacks and breakfast. DESIGN A school-based cross-sectional survey. Data were collected through written questionnaires. SETTING Students from eight schools in the southern part of The Netherlands. SUBJECTS Six hundred and one stude...

This study aimed to investigate the socioeconomic and nutritional factors associated with disordered eating among Brazilian female college students (n = 2,489). Prevalence ratios of risk factors were calculated using Poisson regression models with robust variance based on responses to selected questions from the Eating Attitude Test and Disordered Eating Attitude Scale. It was found that 40.7% ...

Theory testing and construct measurement are inextricably linked. To date, no published research has looked at the factorial validity of an existing eating attitude inventory for use with exercisers. The Eating Attitude Test (EAT) is a 26-item measure that yields a single index of disordered eating attitudes. The original factor analysis showed three interrelated factors: Dieting behavior (13-i...

Five different health behaviors (cigarette use, alcohol use, binge eating, illicit drug use, and drunk driving) were studied prospectively in 5 different groups of subjects. Associations between attitudes toward these behaviors and the behaviors themselves were investigated over at least 2 waves of measurement. Findings revealed that attitudes predicted behavior nonspuriously in 2 instances: al...