Relationship between eating awareness, physical fitness, and body composition in community-living older adults: a cross-sectional study
Özge Cemali, Özgün Elmas, Mustafa Cemali · 2025
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Özge Cemali, Özgün Elmas, and Mustafa Cemali link mindful eating to fitness in older adults in this 2025 study. Paying attention while eating, rather than eating on autopilot, may shape both body and strength in later life. The team compared seniors who scored high and low on an eating awareness scale.
One hundred twenty adults aged sixty-five to seventy were split evenly by awareness score. The high-awareness group beat the low group on every test: chair stands, a timed walk-and-turn, a six-minute walk, one-leg balance, and grip and knee strength. Their bodies also carried more muscle and less fat, with lower body mass index. Awareness scores tracked the fitness and body measures across the whole group. The authors suggest that building eating awareness could support healthy aging, though the one-time snapshot cannot prove which side causes the other.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Özge Cemali, Özgün Elmas, Mustafa Cemali |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 38 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |