Adolescent eating behaviors in the UAE: Time to intervene

CONCLUSION: Our study uncovered certain eating behaviors in the cohort of adolescents, which may be important in promoting weight gain. These included misconceived hunger signals, excessive frequency, amount and speed of food consumption as well as more focus on food taste, inattentiveness to cravings and a strong social influence on food intake decisions. The findings of our study aim to shed some light on the eating patterns among adolescents and encourage research to investigate eating behaviors on an expanded scale evaluating ethnic, gender and age-related differences.PMID:34660438 | PMC:PMC8483106 | DOI:10.4103/jfmpc.jfmpc_267_21

Source: Primary Care - October 18, 2021 Category: Primary Care Authors: Samra Abouchacra Juma Alkaabi Satish Chandrasekhar Nair Abdishakur Abdulla Mazen Taha Mohamad Milad Ismail Mazen Askheta Ali Elhouni Kurady Bairy Raghavendra Bhat Thekra Abdul Salam Al Sayadi Durra Mohammed Al Baloushi Oudi Abouchacra Asma Al Nasseri Nico Source Type: research