A Study of Snack Consumption, Night-Eating Habits, and Nutrient Intake in Gestational Diabetes Mellitus.
- Author:
Hee Jin PARK
1
;
Jinju LEE
;
Ji Myung KIM
;
Hyun Ah LEE
;
Sung Hoon KIM
;
Yuri KIM
Author Information
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords: Snack consumption; Night-eating; Nutrient intake; Gestational diabetes mellitus
- MeSH: Ascorbic Acid; Calcium; Cholesterol; Coffee; Dairy Products; Diabetes, Gestational*; Female; Fruit; Glucose; Glucose Tolerance Test; Pregnancy; Riboflavin; Snacks*; Thiamine; Vitamin E; Vitamins; Surveys and Questionnaires
- From:Clinical Nutrition Research 2013;2(1):42-51
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:English
- Abstract: This study was performed to identify dietary behavior such as snack consumption, night-eating and nutrients intake associated with gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM). The study was conducted on 219 normal glucose tolerance (NGT) subjects and 44 GDM subjects by using a questionnaire including dietary behavior, food frequency and 3-day food record. The mean age, OGTT, and delivery weight of GDM subjects were statistically higher than those in NGT. A larger proportion of NGT subjects consumed black coffee (49.8%) while the majority of GDM subjects (61.4%) drank mixed coffee with sugar and cream. Dairy products were the most frequently consumed snack item in NGT subjects (40.7%), while fruits were most frequently consumed food item in GDM subjects (34.4%). Many of NGT subjects (49.8%) answered that they hardly took night-eating snacks whereas most of GDM subjects (61.4%) took night-eating snacks more than once a week. For change of taste preference, the proportion of NGT subjects who showed less preference for salty taste (33.3%) or greasy taste (16.9%) was higher than that of GDM subjects (11.4%). Nutrient intakes of energy, fat, cholesterol, saturated fatty acid (SFA), monounsaturated fatty acid (MUFA), polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA), carbohydrate, vitamin B1, vitamin B2, vitamin C, and vitamin E in GDM group were significantly higher than those in NGT group. Nutrient densities of SFA and vitamin C in GDM group were higher and nutrient density of calcium was lower than those in NGT group. Taken together, it is recommended to reduce night-eating snack and choose less salty and fatty foods, black-coffee rather than coffee with cream and sugar, and more dairy products to prevent GDM.
