Body weight, weight perceptions and food intake patterns. A cross-sectional study among male recruits in the Norwegian National Guard

Table 4 BMI in relation to food patterns and attitudes towards health and slenderness

	beta-value	p-value
Plant food (pattern 1)
Medium tertile	-0.123	0.060
High Tertile	-0.171	0.012
Fast food (pattern 2)
Medium tertile	0.055	0.401
High Tertile	0.093	0.154
Milk/cereals (pattern 3)
Medium tertile	0.005	0.935
High Tertile	0.031	0.621
Attitudes towards health	0.055	0.348
Attitudes towards slenderness	-0.142	0.013
R	0.278
R²	0.042

Multivariate linear regression analysis. The 3 food patterns were entered as tertiles with the lowest tertile as reference. The 2 attitudes were entered as continous variables. The model was adjusted for smoking status (current smoker or not), light and hard physical activity (both in hours per week) and phase of data collection.

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