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Poor diets have proven very detrimental for the maintenance of good health and eating an excessive
amount of fast food and highly processed meals can harm the general health status of the population.
Hence, this work investigates the habits related to eating outside the home and frequency of eating
fast food meals in participants from six different countries. A cross-sectional descriptive study was
undertaken on a sample of 4,904 adult participants. For the data treatment, basic statistics were
complemented with tree classification analysis, using the CRT algorithm. This study concluded that
in the sample under study the frequency of eating out of home was in general low, corresponding to
four or fewer times per week for 71.9% of the participants, and the consumption of fast food meals
was also acceptable, i.e., with a low frequency of up to two times per week in 88.6% of the
respondents. The biggest differences were encountered when comparing participants from different
age groups, countries or sexes, and not so much for living environment or education level. Tree
classification analysis highlighted the relative importance of the considered factors for eating out and
fast food meals, being country and age confirmed as the most influential factors. In the evaluated
sample the incidence of eating out and fast food meals were low, which is a good indicator to
contribute globally for the good health status of the participants involved in the study.
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Keywords
healthy diet eat out fast food chronic diseases
Citation
Guiné R, Florença S, Leal M, Rumbak I, Komes D, Sarić MM, Tarcea M, Fazakas Z, Szűcs V, Klava D, Straumite E, Barić I. (2020) Comparative study about some eating habits in six countries: eating out and fast food consumption. Egitania Sciencia, 1(26), 109-122.