Dietary factors associated with metabolic risk score in Finnish children aged 6–8 years: the PANIC study

Purpose Previous evidence for the associations of eating frequency and food consumption with clustering of metabolic risk factors among children is limited. We therefore investigated association of the daily number of main meals and snacks and food consumption with a metabolic risk score and individual metabolic risk factors in primary school children. Methods The subjects were a population sample of Finnish girls and boys 6–8 years of age....