Fast foods, energy density and obesity: a possible mechanistic link

By A. Prentice, S. Jebb. Obesity Reviews, 2003

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Subfields: Physiology, Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health

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Obesogenic environments: exploring the built and food environments (2006, background): “11 density, fast food has been implicated in the obesity epidemic (47).”
Critical review: vegetables and fruit in the prevention of chronic diseases (2012, background): “Due to the favourable volume to energy ratio of vegetables, and fruit, satiety signals can emerge without consuming a large amount of energy [9].”
Food choices and diet costs: an economic analysis. (2005, background): “Studies have explored the relative contribution of dietary sugars (10) and fats (11), eating away from home (9), growing portion sizes (12,13), and the energy density of the diet (14).”
Eating out of home and its association with dietary intake: a systematic review of the evidence (2012, background): “As fast food meals tend to be characerized by an energy density that is much higher compared to most other foods (3), the relative larger share of data on fast food consumption could potentially have biased our findings.”
Fast food consumption and increased caloric intake: a systematic review of a trajectory towards weight gain and obesity risk (2008, background): “However, the most cogent and comprehensive hypothesis is the energy density of fast food, which leads to increased caloric intake and subsequently to weight gain or obesity (25,38,13).”
The UN Decade of Nutrition, the NOVA food classification and the trouble with ultra-processing (2017, background): “products prone to cause inadvertent overconsumption of dietary energy, and thus overweight and obesity((14,78)).”
Obesity in children and young people: a crisis in public health. (2004, background): “In an analysis of typical foods served at fast food outlets in the UK, Prentice & Jebb (339) found the food to have greater energy density (by weight) than that found typically in UK”
Australian Dietary Guidelines (2006, background): “International data suggest that the major foods contributing to increased energy intake include sweetened drinks, snack foods and fast food [803, 807, 808] and that increasing portion size is also an important contributor [143, 809, 810].”