Discover Community Create You

Loading publication...

Noodle always counts identifier-free feature events for service operation. With your permission, Google Analytics can also estimate audience and engagement. Search text, publication identifiers, cookies, IP addresses and browser fingerprints are never included in Noodle's first-party event counters.

Privacy details

Article

Eating in the absence of hunger: a genetic marker for childhood obesity in prepubertal boys?

Obesity (Silver Spring, Md.) - 1 Jan 2006

Faith Myles S, Berkowitz Robert I, Stallings Virginia A, Kerns Julia, Storey Megan, Stunkard Albert J

Abstract excerpt

OBJECTIVE: Eating in the absence of hunger (EAH) may be a behavioral trait through which obesity-promoting genes promote positive energy balance. The primary aim of this study was to compare children born at high vs. low risk for obesity with respect to EAH at 5 years of age. RESEARCH METHODS AND PROCEDURES: This was an observational investigation of families enrolled in the University of Pennsylvania and The...

Read the complete abstract on PubMed

Topics

Share this publication in a Topic to start or enrich a Post.

Share to Birth Weight
Share to Child, Preschool

Methodology Data sources Editorial policy Privacy About Contact Helena Bioinformatics

Share to Eating

Share to Energy Intake

Share to Obesity

Share to Parents

Share to Predictive Value of Tests

Share to Sex Factors

Source

Identifiers

PMID: 16493131
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2006.16

Provenance

PubMed metadata and Literature Corpus relationships. Corpus snapshot updated 7 Sept 2026. Manifest publication-graph-cohort-2026-09-07.1.

Source receipt: pubmed, retrieved 7 Sept 2026.

Related research

Semantic proximity does not establish scientific evidence.

Research trail→

Click a neighbor to travelStep 1 · 12 closest

Eating in the absence of hunger: a genetic marker for childhood obesity in prepubertal boys?PMID 16493131Read ↗

Influences on child eating and weight development from a behavioral genetics perspective.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Heritability of hyperphagic eating behavior and appetite-related hormones among Hispanic children.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Fat brains, greedy genes, and parent power: a biobehavioural risk model of child and adult obesity.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Pediatric Eating Behaviors as the Intersection of Biology and Parenting: Lessons from the Birds and the Bees.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Identifying behavioral phenotypes for childhood obesity.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Development of eating behaviors among children and adolescents.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Genetic associations with consumption of palatable foods in the absence of hunger in response to food cues in children.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Overeating phenotypes in overweight and obese children.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Associations between Children's Genetic Susceptibility to Obesity, Infant's Appetite and Parental Feeding Practices in Toddlerhood.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Thrifty-Eating Behavior Phenotype at the Food Court - Programming Goes Beyond Food Preferences.Semantic proximity Read ↗

Influence of heredity on dietary restraint, disinhibition, and perceived hunger in humansSemantic proximity Read ↗

Role of parents in the determination of the food preferences of children and the development of obesity.Semantic proximity Read ↗

⌁Select a neighboring publication to make it the new centre.