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Assessment of eating patterns in adolescents. This study assesses the differences in eating patterns of a sample (n=608) of 15 to 17-year-old adolescents from the city of Barcelona (Spain) with varying BMI (seriously underweight <18kg/m2, underweight 18-19.99kg/m2, normal weight 20-24.99kg/m2, overweight 25-29.99kg/m2 and obese >30kg/m2). Our results appear not to support the existence of the hypothetical obese eating style. We observed a slightly restrained behaviour in overweight subjects and an unrestrained behaviour in underweight subjects. Our results suggest that the eating patterns of the sample differ markedly from those observed in most studies conducted predominantly in North American or northern European populations.

Se evalúan las diferencias en hábitos alimentarios de una muestra de 608 adolescentes de 15-17 años de la ciudad de Barcelona con diferentes niveles de IMC (infrapeso grave <18kg/m2, bajo-peso 18-19,99kg/m2, peso normal 20- 24,99kg/m2, sobrepeso 25-29,99kg/m2 y obesidad >30kg/m2). La existencia del supuesto estilo de alimentación obeso no parece confirmarse con los datos obtenidos en nuestra muestra. Observamos unos hábitos ligeramente restrictivos en los sujetos con sobrepeso y unos hábitos poco restrictivos en sujetos con infrapeso. Los datos parecen indicar que los hábitos alimentarios de los sujetos de nuestra muestra son sustancialmente diferentes a los de estudios realizados con poblaciones norteamericanas y noreuropeas.

The original Spanish version of this paper has been previously published in Psicothema, 1999, Vol 10 No 2, 281-292
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Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to David Sánchez-Carracedo. Departamento de Psicología de la Salud y Psicología Social. Universidad Autónoma de Barcelona. 08193 Bellaterra, Barcelona. Spain. E-mail: david.sanchez@uab.es

 

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