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Children eat their school lunch too quickly: an exploratory study of the effect on food intake

Overview of attention for article published in BMC Public Health, May 2012
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  • Good Attention Score compared to outputs of the same age and source (68th percentile)

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Title
Children eat their school lunch too quickly: an exploratory study of the effect on food intake
Published in
BMC Public Health, May 2012
DOI 10.1186/1471-2458-12-351
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Authors

Modjtaba Zandian, Ioannis Ioakimidis, Jakob Bergström, Ulf Brodin, Cecilia Bergh, Michael Leon, Julian Shield, Per Södersten

Abstract

Speed of eating, an important aspect of eating behaviour, has recently been related to loss of control of food intake and obesity. Very little time is allocated for lunch at school and thus children may consume food more quickly and food intake may therefore be affected. Study 1 measured the time spent eating lunch in a large group of students eating together for school meals. Study 2 measured the speed of eating and the amount of food eaten in individual school children during normal school lunches and then examined the effect of experimentally increasing or decreasing the speed of eating on total food intake.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
Iran, Islamic Republic of 1 1%
United States 1 1%
Luxembourg 1 1%
Unknown 78 96%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 21 26%
Student > Bachelor 14 17%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 11%
Researcher 4 5%
Student > Postgraduate 4 5%
Other 13 16%
Unknown 16 20%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Nursing and Health Professions 13 16%
Medicine and Dentistry 11 14%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 7 9%
Social Sciences 4 5%
Computer Science 3 4%
Other 20 25%
Unknown 23 28%
Attention Score in Context

Attention Score in Context

This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 6. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 12 February 2015.
All research outputs
#6,358,425
of 24,981,585 outputs
Outputs from BMC Public Health
#6,511
of 16,642 outputs
Outputs of similar age
#41,256
of 168,759 outputs
Outputs of similar age from BMC Public Health
#65
of 209 outputs
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