AN ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE EVIDENCE ON THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DIETARY PATTERNS AND OBESITY IN CHINESE ADULTS

WEN Lin; SONG Peng-kun; RONG Shuang; LIU Lie-gang; CHEN Liang-kai

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Acta Nutrimenta Sinica ›› 2025, Vol. 47 ›› Issue (2) : 191-199.

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AN ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE EVIDENCE ON THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DIETARY PATTERNS AND OBESITY IN CHINESE ADULTS

WEN Lin^1,2, SONG Peng-kun³, RONG Shuang⁴, LIU Lie-gang^1,2, CHEN Liang-kai^1,2

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As dietary structure changes, obesity has become increasingly prominent in China. The article summarized the current prevalence of obesity in China, changes in dietary patterns, and the relationships between them. The main dietary patterns in China included traditional dietary patterns (northern pattern, southern pattern), Eastern healthy diet pattern, westernized characteristics dietary patterns (modern dietary pattern, meat pattern), vegetarian pattern, and lacto-ovo-vegetarian pattern. Among them, modern dietary pattern and meat pattern were associated with an increased risk of obesity, whose increasing consumption trend was potentially a major factor contributing to the obesity epidemic in China. Southern dietary pattern and Eastern healthy diet pattern were negatively associated with the risk of obesity, which may improve the obesity problem among Chinese adults.

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obesity / modern dietary pattern / meat pattern / eastern healthy diet pattern

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WEN Lin, SONG Peng-kun, RONG Shuang, LIU Lie-gang, CHEN Liang-kai. AN ANALYSIS OF THE LITERATURE EVIDENCE ON THE ASSOCIATION BETWEEN DIETARY PATTERNS AND OBESITY IN CHINESE ADULTS[J]. Acta Nutrimenta Sinica. 2025, 47(2): 191-199

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