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Intuitive eating and food intake in men and women: Results from the Swiss food panel study
Since there is limited data on the relationship between intuitive eating and food consumption, this 2019 study was designed to examine the associations among intuitive eating, Body Mass Index (BMI), diet quality, self-evaluation of dietary intake, and physical activity. Horwath et al. administered several questionnaires to a randomly selected adult population from the German and French-speaking parts of Switzerland (5238 participants in total). While intuitive eating scale (IES-2) scores were moderately linked with BMI in men and women, the four IES-2 subscales showed different relationships with food intake. While the subscale, unconditional permission to eat, was somewhat correlated with poorer diet quality scores, this study highlighted its consistent associations with a more negative self-evaluation of eating behavior. With regards to the 3 other IES-2 subscales, diet quality scores were weakly but positively associated with satiety cues, reliance on hunger, and eating for physical rather than emotional reasons in women but not in men. Studies analyzing the impact of intuitive eating interventions on food intake is recommended. [NPID: intuitive eating, internal hunger, satiety cues, German, French, diet quality]
Year: 2019
