2022 Volume 80 Issue 6 Pages 295-306
Objective: To clarify dietary practices for lifestyle disease prevention by sex and age, among young and middle-aged regular breakfast eaters.
Methods: The subjects of this cross-sectional study were 984 respondents (men; 45.7%) to the 2016 Hyogo Diet Survey, aged 20~59 years. Subjects were categorized into regular breakfast eaters (≥4 days per week) and non-regular eaters. The demographic characteristics and whether they implemented each dietary practice for lifestyle disease prevention were compared according to sex and age using the χ2 test. A binomial logistic regression analysis was performed using whether or not subjects ate breakfast as the independent variable according to sex and age, adjusted for age, family composition, BMI, and history of lifestyle disease.
Results: Logistic regression analysis showed significantly higher odds ratios in regular breakfast eaters than that in non-regular breakfast eaters for "having a well-balanced meal at least twice daily" in both men and women aged 40~59 years (odds ratio [95% confidence interval]; 2.41 [1.04~5.62], 2.75 [1.08~6.96]), "restricting salt intake" (2.91 [1.21~6.98]), "eating a lot of vegetables" (3.76 [1.73~8.17]) in men aged 40~59 years, and "having a well-balanced meal at least twice daily" in men aged 20~39 years (2.83 [1.33~6.05]).
Conclusion: Eating breakfast regularly was associated with eating well-balanced meals in men aged 20~39 years and both men and women aged 40~59 years, and with restricting salt intake and eating a lot of vegetables in addition to eating well-balanced meals in men aged 40~59 years.
