Ultraprocessed Food Consumption is Strongly and Dose-Dependently Associated with Excess Body Weight in Swiss Women
Pestoni G, Habib L, Reber E, Rohrmann S, Staub K, Stanga Z, Faeh D
Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) · 18 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
- Intake measured by
- Food diaries or recalls
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Independent funding
- Government
- Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen
- Grants
- Bundesamt für Lebensmittelsicherheit und Veterinärwesen (5.17.02ERN)
Based on 1 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2021-02-23 · Obesity (Silver Spring) · vol. 29 · issue 3 · pp. 601–609
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Cited
- 20 citations · more than 92% of similar papers · 3.4× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 43 works
- Access
- Open access (repository copy) · CC-BY
- Research areas
- Consumer Attitudes and Food Labeling · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet · Global Public Health Policies and Epidemiology
- Keywords
- Medicine, Obesity, Waist, Body mass index, Odds ratio, Abdominal obesity, Demography, Multinomial logistic regression, Excess weight, Logistic regression, Odds, Environmental health, Food group, Cross-sectional study, Food consumption, Weight loss, Internal medicine
- MeSH
- humans, obesity, food additives, body mass index, diet, nutrition surveys, cross-sectional studies, feeding behavior, food preferences, sex factors, energy intake, food handling, adolescent, adult, aged, middle aged, switzerland, female, male, young adult, food quality
7 authors
From CH
- Giulia Pestoni · correspondingUniversity of Zurich
- Linda HabibUniversity of Bern; University Hospital of Bern; Solothurner Spitäler
- Emilie ReberUniversity of Bern; University Hospital of Bern
- Sabine RohrmannUniversity of Zurich
- Kaspar StaubUniversity of Zurich; Swiss Integrative Center for Human Health
- Zeno Giovanni StangaUniversity of Bern; University Hospital of Bern
Abstract
Objective
This study investigated the association between ultraprocessed food consumption and excess body weight in a Swiss nationally representative study.
Methods
Data stem from the cross-sectional Swiss National Nutrition Survey menuCH (n = 2,057). Dietary information was collected with 24-hour dietary recalls, and food items were categorized into non-ultraprocessed or ultraprocessed using the NOVA food classification system. The following three excess body weight indicators were considered: BMI, waist circumference (WC), and a BMI-WC composite outcome. Multinomial logistic regression models stratified by sex were fitted.
Results
Women in the highest quintile of ultraprocessed food weight proportion had significantly higher odds of having obesity (odds ratio [OR] 3.01, 95% CI: 1.48-6.11), having abdominal obesity (OR 2.69, 95% CI: 1.43-5.05), and being in the highest category of the BMI-WC composite outcome (OR 3.28, 95% CI: 1.59-6.77). No relevant associations were observed in men.
Conclusions
Ultraprocessed food weight proportion was strongly and dose-dependently associated with excess body weight in women but not in men. Further studies are required to elucidate potential mechanisms behind this association. Increasing evidence of the detrimental effect of ultraprocessed food consumption on health stresses the need to consider these products in future public health strategies.
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