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Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults
BACKGROUND: Meal planning could be a potential tool to offset time scarcity and therefore encourage home meal preparation, which has been linked with an improved diet quality. However, to date, meal planning has received little attention in the scientific literature. The aim of our cross-sectional s...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28153017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-017-0461-7 |
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author | Ducrot, Pauline Méjean, Caroline Aroumougame, Vani Ibanez, Gladys Allès, Benjamin Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle Hercberg, Serge Péneau, Sandrine |
author_facet | Ducrot, Pauline Méjean, Caroline Aroumougame, Vani Ibanez, Gladys Allès, Benjamin Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle Hercberg, Serge Péneau, Sandrine |
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description | BACKGROUND: Meal planning could be a potential tool to offset time scarcity and therefore encourage home meal preparation, which has been linked with an improved diet quality. However, to date, meal planning has received little attention in the scientific literature. The aim of our cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between meal planning and diet quality, including adherence to nutritional guidelines and food variety, as well as weight status. METHODS: Meal planning, i.e. planning ahead the foods that will be eaten for the next few days, was assessed in 40,554 participants of the web-based observational NutriNet-Santé study. Dietary measurements included intakes of energy, nutrients, food groups, and adherence to the French nutritional guidelines (mPNNS-GS) estimated through repeated 24-h dietary records. A food variety score was also calculated using Food Frequency Questionnaire. Weight and height were self-reported. Association between meal planning and dietary intakes were assessed using ANCOVAs, while associations with quartiles of mPNNS-GS scores, quartiles of food variety score and weight status categories (overweight, obesity) were evaluated using logistic regression models. RESULTS: A total of 57% of the participants declared to plan meals at least occasionally. Meal planners were more likely to have a higher mPNNS-GS (OR quartile 4 vs. 1 = 1.13, 95% CI: [1.07–1.20]), higher overall food variety (OR quartile 4 vs. 1 = 1.25, 95% CI: [1.18–1.32]). In women, meal planning was associated with lower odds of being overweight (OR = 0.92 [0.87–0.98]) and obese (OR = 0.79 [0.73–0.86]). In men, the association was significant for obesity only (OR = 0.81 [0.69–0.94]). CONCLUSIONS: Meal planning was associated with a healthier diet and less obesity. Although no causality can be inferred from the reported associations, these data suggest that meal planning could potentially be relevant for obesity prevention. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12966-017-0461-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. |
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spelling | pubmed-52888912017-02-06 Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults Ducrot, Pauline Méjean, Caroline Aroumougame, Vani Ibanez, Gladys Allès, Benjamin Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle Hercberg, Serge Péneau, Sandrine Int J Behav Nutr Phys Act Research BACKGROUND: Meal planning could be a potential tool to offset time scarcity and therefore encourage home meal preparation, which has been linked with an improved diet quality. However, to date, meal planning has received little attention in the scientific literature. The aim of our cross-sectional study was to investigate the association between meal planning and diet quality, including adherence to nutritional guidelines and food variety, as well as weight status. METHODS: Meal planning, i.e. planning ahead the foods that will be eaten for the next few days, was assessed in 40,554 participants of the web-based observational NutriNet-Santé study. Dietary measurements included intakes of energy, nutrients, food groups, and adherence to the French nutritional guidelines (mPNNS-GS) estimated through repeated 24-h dietary records. A food variety score was also calculated using Food Frequency Questionnaire. Weight and height were self-reported. Association between meal planning and dietary intakes were assessed using ANCOVAs, while associations with quartiles of mPNNS-GS scores, quartiles of food variety score and weight status categories (overweight, obesity) were evaluated using logistic regression models. RESULTS: A total of 57% of the participants declared to plan meals at least occasionally. Meal planners were more likely to have a higher mPNNS-GS (OR quartile 4 vs. 1 = 1.13, 95% CI: [1.07–1.20]), higher overall food variety (OR quartile 4 vs. 1 = 1.25, 95% CI: [1.18–1.32]). In women, meal planning was associated with lower odds of being overweight (OR = 0.92 [0.87–0.98]) and obese (OR = 0.79 [0.73–0.86]). In men, the association was significant for obesity only (OR = 0.81 [0.69–0.94]). CONCLUSIONS: Meal planning was associated with a healthier diet and less obesity. Although no causality can be inferred from the reported associations, these data suggest that meal planning could potentially be relevant for obesity prevention. ELECTRONIC SUPPLEMENTARY MATERIAL: The online version of this article (doi:10.1186/s12966-017-0461-7) contains supplementary material, which is available to authorized users. BioMed Central 2017-02-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5288891/ /pubmed/28153017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-017-0461-7 Text en © The Author(s). 2017 Open AccessThis article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated. |
spellingShingle | Research Ducrot, Pauline Méjean, Caroline Aroumougame, Vani Ibanez, Gladys Allès, Benjamin Kesse-Guyot, Emmanuelle Hercberg, Serge Péneau, Sandrine Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults |
title | Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults |
title_full | Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults |
title_fullStr | Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults |
title_full_unstemmed | Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults |
title_short | Meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of French adults |
title_sort | meal planning is associated with food variety, diet quality and body weight status in a large sample of french adults |
topic | Research |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5288891/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28153017 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/s12966-017-0461-7 |
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