title: Self-awareness of fast eating and its impact on diagnostic components of metabolic syndrome among middle-aged Japanese males and females.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  The aim of the present study was to examine the association between subjects with self-awareness of fast eating and diagnostic components of metabolic syndrome in Japanese middle-aged male and female.
  
  
  METHODS
  Subjects consisted of 3208 males (average age 50.6 years) and 2055 females (average age 50.0 years). Associations between subjects with self-awareness of fast eating and multiple components of metabolic syndrome (waist circumference, body mass index [BMI], blood pressure, and related blood sample tests) were evaluated.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Significantly more males (57.7%) acknowledged themselves as "fast eater" than females (46.5%). Self-reported fast eaters showed significantly elevated body weight, BMI, and waist circumference in both genders. However, only male self-reported fast eaters showed high levels of blood pressure, fasting blood glucose, uric acid, and low-density lipoprotein (LDL)-cholesterol.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Fast eating is associated with diagnostic components of metabolic syndrome. The effect of acknowledging themselves as fast eater presents a higher impact on males than on females in the middle-aged Japanese population. The present study indicates that finding subjects with self-awareness of fast eating may lead to the prevention of developing metabolic syndrome.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Nohara
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Maejima
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Shimomura
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Kumamoto
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Takahashi
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Akuzawa
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Negishi
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Ishiyama
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Nagano
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Aso
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Takenoshita
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Shimomura
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001364:Awareness; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000502:physiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan / Q000453:epidemiology; D008297:Male; D024821:Metabolic Syndrome / Q000453:epidemiology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012307:Risk Factors; D012649:Self Concept; D012737:Sex Factors
keywords: eating speed (fast eating).; metabolic syndrome