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Foods with friends: overweight students have more weekday eating partners (811.17)
Author(s) -
Kniffin Kevin,
Sobal Jeffery,
Esposito John
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.28.1_supplement.811.17
Subject(s) - overweight , portion size , psychology , weight management , environmental health , medicine , gerontology , obesity , food science , biology , endocrinology
Applying lab findings that people tend to eat more in the company of others, we report survey patterns whereby overweight people tend to have relatively more mid‐week eating partners. In contrast, we find no differences in the number of meals eaten by overweight people compared with the rest of our sample for any day of the week. These findings suggest that reducing the number of midweek eating partners may help facilitate weight management.