Clinical Study Eating Behaviors and Overweight among Adolescents:

Copyright © 2013 Hirotaka Ochiai et al.This is an open access article distributed under theCreative CommonsAttribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Objectives. The aim of the present study was to investigate the relationship between eating behaviors and overweight among population-based adolescents in Japan.Methods. Study subjects comprised adolescents in the seventh grade (age range, 12–13 years) from Ina, a town in Saitama Prefecture, Japan, between 1999 and 2008. The height and weight of the subjects were measured, and information concerning eating behaviors (eating speed and eating until full) was obtained using a self-administered questionnaire. Results. Among boys