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From: Decreased eating frequency linked to increased visceral adipose tissue, body fat, and BMI in Hispanic college freshmen

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provides a detailed diagram of the inclusion and exclusion of study participants. 791 participants were recruited initially via a 21 item dietary screener, which asked about eating frequency habits and was adapted from Project Eat [25]. Only subjects who identified themselves as frequent or infrequent eaters on the survey were contacted for dietary recalls which were conducted by phone prior to the in-person data collection. Three or more 24 h multiple-pass dietary recalls were collected in 30 % (n = 241) of the total subject pool to verify eating frequency. Of those subjects, 43% (n = 103) were not frequent or infrequent eaters as determined via dietary recalls, and an additional 38 participants were either non-responsive or did not qualify due to other exclusionary criteria. Furthermore, only infrequent eaters who averaged less than 3 eating occasions (EOs) per 24 h or frequent eaters who averaged 4 or more EOs per 24 h on the majority of their dietary recalls were brought in for the in-person visit. There were a total of 100 subjects who completed the in-person visit, one subject did not have adequate dietary data, three participants did not have specific fat distribution data, and four subjects did not attain three days of eight hours or more of physical activity data via accelerometer, leaving the final sample size at 92 subjects

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