Eating speed and height loss in relation to overweight: A retrospective study

• Published in: PLOS ONE Vol. 18; no. 4; p. e0284998
• Main Authors: Shimizu, Yuji, Hayakawa, Hidenobu, Honda, Eiko, Sasaki, Nagisa, Takada, Midori, Okada, Takeo, Ohira, Testuya, Kiyama, Masahiko
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Public Library of Science (PLoS) 26.04.2023; Public Library of Science
• Subjects: Age; Analysis; Atherosclerosis; Biology and Life Sciences; Blood pressure; Body mass; Body Mass Index; Body size; Body weight; Body weight gain; Cancer; Cardiovascular disease; Cholesterol; Comparative analysis; Confounding (Statistics); Degenerative disc disease; Diabetes; Disease prevention; Eating; Eating (Physiology); Feeding Behavior; Health aspects; Height; Hemoglobin; Humans; Hypertension; Medicine; Medicine and Health Sciences; Metabolic disorders; Mortality; Overweight; Overweight - epidemiology; Physiological aspects; Q; R; Regression analysis; Research Article; Retrospective Studies; Risk factors; Risk reduction; Science; Values; Variance analysis; Weight; Weight Gain; Workers; Japan

Fast eating is an independent risk factor for weight gain. Our previous study involving Japanese workers revealed that overweight (body mass index ≥ 25.0 kg/m 2 ) is an independent risk factor for height loss. However, no studies have clarified the association between eating speed and height loss in...