Title |
Children eat their school lunch too quickly: an exploratory study of the effect on food intake
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Published in |
BMC Public Health, May 2012
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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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