Dietary behavior and metabolic disorders: what is first

Abstract

Overweight is one of the most common risk factors for non-communicable diseases among Belarusians. In most cases, obesity develops as a result of eating disorders. The objective was to study the prevalence of changes in eating behavior among people of working age and its correlation with metabolic disorders.The study has shown that the vast majority of men and women under the age of 50 (over 55%) are overweight, and the metabolic control parameters that are responsible for the risk of developing diabetes and atherosclerosis directly depend on the BMI value. If women in general are characterized by a restrictive type of eating behavior and other types (external and emotiogenic) occur with the same frequency and do not depend on body weight, then dietary restrictions are generally not typical for men with normal body weight, and if there is an excess, a restrictive type of eating behavior is combined with the external. At the same time, about 70% of women and 64% of men with overweight do not limit themselves in nutrition, and the prevalence of all types of eating disorders depends on BMI and the presence of signs of abdominal obesity.