Emerging Adulthood and College‐aged Youth: An Overlooked Age for Weight‐related Behavior Change

Nelson, Melissa C.; Story, Mary; Larson, Nicole; Neumark‐Sztainer, Dianne; Lytle, Leslie A.

doi:10.1038/oby.2008.365

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“…Although studies worldwide have identified lack of sun exposure as the main cause of vitamin D deficiency (10) , there is limited awareness of the association between sun exposure and vitamin D synthesis in some populations (11)(12)(13) . The transition from adolescence to young adulthood is gaining recognition as an important period for health promotion and disease prevention (14) . To the best of our knowledge, no study about knowledge, attitude and practice (KAP) regarding vitamin D among university students has been conducted before in China.…”

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Investigation on vitamin D knowledge, attitude and practice of university students in Nanjing, China

Ming¹,

Zhuang²,

Yuan³

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Public Health Nutr.

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Objective: To investigate university students' knowledge, attitudes and practice (KAP) regarding vitamin D. Design: The students were requested to answer a questionnaire related to vitamin D and sun exposure. The consumption frequency of foods rich in vitamin D was assessed. Additionally, the intake of vitamin D-containing supplements was recorded. Setting: A medical university in Nanjing, China. Subjects: Five hundred and fifteen medical students were included. Results: The highest rate of correct responses for the quiz was 68·0 %, while the lowest was 9·6 %. Most students lacked sun exposure because they did not want to get tanned; 82·7 % of students used some sun protection and sunscreen use was more popular in the female group. The consumption frequency of foods rich in vitamin D was low and 5·6 % of the students used vitamin D supplements. The students' knowledge on vitamin D was derived mainly from the media and health professionals. Most of the students were interested to know more about vitamin D. Conclusions: The present study suggested that medical students had little knowledge and unfavourable behaviours. They should get more health education through the media and health professionals. It is advisable to increase their consumption of foods rich in vitamin D.

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Investigation on vitamin D knowledge, attitude and practice of university students in Nanjing, China

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Yuan³

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“…This life stage is critical as many changes occur during it, such as the development of self-identity, leaving home, and increased autonomy in decision-making [1].…”

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Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and lifestyle characteristics of university students in Cyprus: A cross-sectional survey

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Botsaris

Gekas

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“…Adolescence is signified by a physical and psychosocial transition, including: changes in cognitive processing; increased autonomy in decision-making and independence; more responsibilities and experimentation; as well as developing a personal identity with different interpersonal influences and support systems [82][83][84][112][113][114]. This period can often come with heightened stress and anxiety levels.…”

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“…Childhood is a crucial period of socialization when young people learn and develop many of the consumption values, habits, attitudes, preferences and behaviours that they will carry into adulthood [82,83,112,119,120]. With increasing age these views and habits become increasingly less flexible, so it is an opportune time to cement healthy perspectives on nature and food.…”

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Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

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Abstract:To be "connected" is "to care", because how and what we care about is influenced, and influences, what we are connected with. Emotional connection predicts environmental concern and children exposed to green environments take this appreciation of nature with them into adulthood. However, the majority of the human population is now living within urban areas, where opportunities for people to interact and bond with nature are greatly diminished, thereby potentially threatening the liveability of cities into the future. Connection with nature has been shown repeatedly to benefit human wellbeing and predict pro-environmental behaviours. By definition "nature" includes urban agriculture, which is also an integral component of a city's foodscape, thereby providing opportunities to improve the wellbeing of city inhabitants as well as help ensure food security. This will only be attainable if the next generation has an emotional connection to nature, and the necessary life skills to help them enter adult life as informed food citizens who make healthy and sustainable decisions for themselves as well as others. This paper reviews existing literature on foodscape (or one's food environment) and biophilia (the love of life or living systems) to highlight the need for inter-disciplinary research that combines urban agriculture and food literacy to ensure future food security and wellbeing of urban inhabitants.

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Emerging Adulthood and College‐aged Youth: An Overlooked Age for Weight‐related Behavior Change

Cited by 1,045 publications

References 57 publications

Investigation on vitamin D knowledge, attitude and practice of university students in Nanjing, China

Investigation on vitamin D knowledge, attitude and practice of university students in Nanjing, China

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and lifestyle characteristics of university students in Cyprus: A cross-sectional survey

Who Cares? The Importance of Emotional Connections with Nature to Ensure Food Security and Wellbeing in Cities

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