Abnormalities in weight status, eating attitudes, and eating behaviors among urban high school students:

Pastore, Doris R.; Fisher, Martin; Friedman, Stanford B.

doi:10.1016/1054-139x(95)00321-i

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“…However, their results did suggest that overweight adolescents were more likely than their normal weight counterparts to express weight-specific concerns and engage in behaviours such as chronic dieting and binge eating. These results support the earlier findings of Pastore et al, 8 who found that those who were overweight did not differ from their normal weight peers in relation to reported levels of self-esteem or anxiety, although they did report more abnormal eating attitudes.…”

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confidence: 91%

Schema and parental bonding in overweight and nonoverweight female adolescents

2005

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OBJECTIVE: To investigate whether family functioning and cognitions in a group of overweight female adolescents differ significantly from those in a group of normal weight female adolescents. DESIGN: Cross-sectional study. SUBJECTS: In all, 23 overweight female adolescents (mean age: 17.6 y, mean body mass index (BMI: 27.8 kg/m 2 ), and 23 normal weight female adolescents (mean age: 17.7 y, mean BMI: 20.2 kg/m 2 ). MEASUREMENTS:The following self-report measures were completed: the Parental Bonding Inventory, 1 the Young Schema Questionnaire-short version, 2 the Eating Attitudes Test, 3 the Beck Depression Inventory 4 and the Eating Disorder Belief Questionnaire. 5 RESULTS: Overweight female adolescents reported more negative self-beliefs and greater belief in schema relating to emotional deprivation, fears of abandonment, subjugation and insufficient self-control. They also perceived their fathers as being significantly more overprotective and significantly less caring. Within this group perceived level of maternal care correlated negatively with negative self-beliefs and schema. CONCLUSIONS: Overweight female adolescents show some of the cognitive features associated with the development of an eating disorder. However, positive parent-child relationships may serve to protect overweight adolescents from developing clinical eating disorders and from psychological distress later in life.

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confidence: 91%

Schema and parental bonding in overweight and nonoverweight female adolescents

2005

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“…Summerbell et al 9 did mention that a major limitation to their study was the potential bias of overweight adolescents to under-report their food intake, but they were not able to verify this limitation. Pastore et al 20 conducted a cross-sectional study and found that among 753 male and female adolescents living in New York City, 72% of those who were heavier than ideal (33% of the sample) skipped breakfast more than three times each week. These studies did not establish causality because in any cross-sectional study the directionality is not elucidated: participants may have changed their dietary pattern after becoming overweight, in an attempt to lose weight.…”

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Dietary pattern as a predictor of change in BMI z-score among girls

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et al. 2005

Int J Obes

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Objectives: To describe child and adolescent dietary patterns and to determine associations between childhood dietary pattern and longitudinal change in body mass index (BMI) z-score among girls. Population and methods: Healthy girls (n ¼ 101) aged 8-12 years at baseline and 11-19 years at follow-up participated in a longitudinal study of growth and development. Participants kept 7-day dietary records at two points in time. We incorporated time of day, frequency, and amount of energy consumed (defined as percentage of total energy consumed per dietary event) when characterizing dietary patterns. Results: Girls ate an average of 4-5 times per day and consumed most energy in the afternoon and in the evening/night, rather than in the morning. After controlling for baseline BMI, the mean percentage of daily energy consumed in the evening/night was positively associated with change in BMI z-score (P ¼ 0.039). Eating between 4.0 and 5.9 times per day overall and no more than 1.9 times in the evening/night daily were negatively associated with change in BMI z-score (P ¼ 0.002 and 0.047, respectively), after controlling for baseline BMI z-score. Discussion: Recommendations to decrease the percentage of energy coming from the evening/night meal and the number of dietary events to no more than six times per day and two times in the evening/night should be evaluated in future longitudinal investigations.

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“…Studies with larger sample sizes (N > 1,000) examining breakfast practices have found that overweight and obese children are more likely to skip breakfast than their normal weight peers (Dwyer et al, 2001;Pastore, Fisher, & Friedman, 1996;Rampersaud et al, 2005). In addition, studies have found family meals to be associated with healthy nutritional practices such as higher fruit and vegetable consumption and less soft drink consumption, which should translate to normal BMI values (Krebs & Jacobson, 2003).…”

Section: Nutritional Characteristicsmentioning

confidence: 99%