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Personal and situational predictors of everyday snacking: An application of temporal self‐regulation theory

Personal and situational predictors of everyday snacking: An application of temporal... BackgroundExcess weight places individuals at an increased risk to develop a range of diseases and negative health outcomes (World Health Organization: WHO, ). Global rates of overweight and obesity have increased dramatically over the past 30 years (Finucane et al., ; Ng et al., ), which makes understanding the modifiable risk factors behind obesity a crucial endeavour. Put simply, obesity results from prolonged periods of energy imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure (Hill & Peters, ).One of the key behavioural determinants of this energy imbalance is food intake, in particular the intake of discretionary foods (Hampl, Heaton, & Taylor, ). Discretionary foods are foods which are consumed outside of the main meal times of breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Ovaskainen et al., ) and typically include energy‐dense, nutritionally poor food items such as biscuits, confectionary, pastries, and alcohol (Rangan, Schindeler, Hector, Gill, & Webb, ). In Australia – where the current study was conducted – it has been estimated that the proportion of the daily energy intake derived from discretionary foods is approximately 30–41% depending on age (Australian Bureau of Statistics: ABS, ; Rangan et al., ). What makes the intake of discretionary foods particularly challenging to understand is the fact that they are http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png British Journal of Health Psychology Wiley

Personal and situational predictors of everyday snacking: An application of temporal self‐regulation theory

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Wiley
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© 2017 The British Psychological Society
ISSN
1359-107X
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2044-8287
DOI
10.1111/bjhp.12259
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28722217
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Abstract

BackgroundExcess weight places individuals at an increased risk to develop a range of diseases and negative health outcomes (World Health Organization: WHO, ). Global rates of overweight and obesity have increased dramatically over the past 30 years (Finucane et al., ; Ng et al., ), which makes understanding the modifiable risk factors behind obesity a crucial endeavour. Put simply, obesity results from prolonged periods of energy imbalance between energy intake and energy expenditure (Hill & Peters, ).One of the key behavioural determinants of this energy imbalance is food intake, in particular the intake of discretionary foods (Hampl, Heaton, & Taylor, ). Discretionary foods are foods which are consumed outside of the main meal times of breakfast, lunch, and dinner (Ovaskainen et al., ) and typically include energy‐dense, nutritionally poor food items such as biscuits, confectionary, pastries, and alcohol (Rangan, Schindeler, Hector, Gill, & Webb, ). In Australia – where the current study was conducted – it has been estimated that the proportion of the daily energy intake derived from discretionary foods is approximately 30–41% depending on age (Australian Bureau of Statistics: ABS, ; Rangan et al., ). What makes the intake of discretionary foods particularly challenging to understand is the fact that they are

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British Journal of Health Psychology – Wiley

Published: Nov 1, 2017

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