Abstract
Aim: The aim of this study was to examine adolescent’s attention levels, in which mood they tend to eat, eating habits and the relationship among them.
 Methods: This study was conducted in February 2020 on 142 students in total, 69 (48.6%) of them girls and 73 (51.6%) of them boys who are studying at Süleymaniye Educational Institutions Bağlıca Secondary School in Turkey. Data were collected by a questionnaire with 38 questions and a 24-h dietary recall to determine the personal characteristics and the eating habits of adolescents; the D2 Attention Test was used to determine attention levels and the Emotional Appetite Questionnaire was used to identify appetite.
 Results: 38.7% of the participants in the study were overweight and 23.2% were obesity. The D2 Attention test found that mean TN (total number of items processed) and CP (concentration performance) scores were positively correlated with age and negatively with Body Mass Index for age. A significant and negative correlation was found between glucose intake and the TN (total number of items processed) scores.
 Conclusions: A high risk of obesity was founded in these secondary school students. At the same time, it is thought that there may be a relationship between individuals' macro and micronutrient consumption and their emotional eating tendency and attention levels. For this reason, it is important to detect and improve dietary habits of adolescence, which is a critical process for future generations.
Highlights
Adolescence is defined as the period of attaining physical, cognitive and social maturity between childhood and adulthood.[1]
The conclusion to be drawn is that the profession of mothers was found to be housewives, and the profession of fathers was found as civil servant and free profession
A statistically significant positive correlation was found between the positive total score and the consumption of energy, fat, polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFA), monounsaturated fatty acids (MUFA), saturated fatty acids (SFA), omega 6, and sucrose
Summary
Adolescence is defined as the period of attaining physical, cognitive and social maturity between childhood and adulthood.[1]. Brain development continues.[1,2,3] Processes such as neuron formation, cell loss, synaptic formation and pruning occurring during this period cause the morphological structure of the brain to be rearranged.[4] In addition, a locational difference between the prefrontal cortex and the limbic system, which is related to issues such as emotional and behavioural tendencies, is most common in adolescence. This developmental difference between the regions of the brain causes individuals in this period to act with emotional behaviours compared to adults and to have difficulty with opposing impulsive motives.[5,6]
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