Open AccessGenetic and environmental influences on eating behavior: the Swedish Young Male Twins Study
Author(s) -
Sanna Tholin,
Finn Rasmussen,
Per Tynelius,
Jan Karlsson
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
american journal of clinical nutrition
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.608
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1938-3207
pISSN - 0002-9165
DOI - 10.1093/ajcn/81.3.564
Subject(s) - emotional eating , heritability , twin study , overweight , structural equation modeling , psychology , eating behavior , population , obesity , cognition , disordered eating , demography , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , eating disorders , medicine , psychiatry , endocrinology , biology , genetics , statistics , mathematics , sociology
Eating behavior may be implicated in the increasing prevalence of overweight and obesity, presumably in relation to easy access to energy-dense and highly palatable foods.
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