The joint impact on being overweight of self reported behaviours of eating quickly and eating until full : cross sectional survey

doi:10.1136/bmj.a2002

Published 21 October 2008, doi:10.1136/bmj.a2002
Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a2002

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The joint impact on being overweight of self reported behaviours of eating quickly and eating until full : cross sectional survey

Koutatsu Maruyama, graduate student¹^,2, Shinichi Sato, director²^,3, Tetsuya Ohira, associate professor¹^,2, Kenji Maeda, chief physician², Hiroyuki Noda, research fellow¹^,4, Yoshimi Kubota, graduate student ¹^,2, Setsuko Nishimura, dietitian², Akihiko Kitamura, director², Masahiko Kiyama, director², Takeo Okada, director², Hironori Imano, chief physician², Masakazu Nakamura, director², Yoshinori Ishikawa, deputy president², Michinori Kurokawa, dietitian⁵, Satoshi Sasaki, professor ⁶, Hiroyasu Iso, professor¹

¹ Department of Social and Environmental Medicine, Graduate School of Medicine, Osaka University, Yamadaoka, 2-2 Suita-shi, Osaka, Japan 565-0871, ² Osaka Medical Center for Health Science and Promotion, Osaka, Japan, ³ Chiba Prefectural Institute of Public Health, Chiba-City, Japan, ⁴ Harvard Center for Population and Development Studies, Harvard University, MA, USA, ⁵ Division of Health and Welfare, Osaka Prefecture, Japan, ⁶ Department of Social and Preventive Epidemiology, School of Public Health, University of Tokyo, Japan

Correspondence to: H Iso fvgh5640{at}mb.infoweb.ne.jp

Objective To examine whether eating until full or eating quicklyor combinations of these eating behaviours are associated withbeing overweight.

Design and participants Cross sectional survey.

Setting Two communities in Japan.

Participants 3287 adults (1122 men, 2165 women) aged 30-69 whoparticipated in surveys on cardiovascular risk from 2003 to2006.

Main outcome measures Body mass index (overweight $≥$ 25.0) andthe dietary habits of eating until full (lifestyle questionnaire)and speed of eating (validated brief self administered questionnaire).

Results 571 (50.9%) men and 1265 (58.4%) women self reportedeating until full, and 523 (45.6%) men and 785 (36.3%) womenself reported eating quickly. For both sexes the highest ageadjusted mean values for height, weight, body mass index, andtotal energy intake were in the eating until full and eatingquickly group compared with the not eating until full and noteating quickly group. The multivariable adjusted odds ratioof being overweight for eating until full was 2.00 (95% confidenceinterval 1.53 to 2.62) for men and 1.92 (1.53 to 2.40) for womenand for eating quickly was 1.84 (1.42 to 2.38) for men and 2.09(1.69 to 2.59) for women. The multivariable odds ratio of beingoverweight with both eating behaviours compared with neitherwas 3.13 (2.20 to 4.45) for men and 3.21 (2.41 to 4.29) forwomen.

Conclusion Eating until full and eating quickly are associatedwith being overweight in Japanese men and women, and these eatingbehaviours combined may have a substantial impact on being overweight.

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