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A large body of human and laboratory animal research has focused on rates of eating within meals, and on the broader temporal and circadian patterns of spacing and size of eating events over time. As much or more than other topics of behavioural and nutritional research on eating and obesity, this area has suffered from serious problems with confounding variables and, particularly, in the identification or interpretation of cause and effect.
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Mela, D.J., Rogers, P.J. (1998). Patterns of food intake. In: Food, Eating and Obesity. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-3254-9_7
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