Patterns and Correlates of Physical Activity and Nutrition Behaviors in Adolescents

Sánchez, Alfredo García; Norman, Gregory J.; Sallis, James F.; Calfas, Karen J.; Cella, John; Patrick, Kevin

doi:10.1016/j.amepre.2006.10.012

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“…Similar to the improved nutrition result, this also suggests a stepwise improvement in physical activity when diet quality increased from poor to average to superior; thus, students with the highest activity levels also had the highest diet quality scores. This suggests a clustering of positive lifestyle behaviours, which is consistent with previous reports from both Canada (41) and the USA (6,44,45) . Although socioeconomic status (SES) was not measured in the current study, results from a previous web-based survey indicated vegetable and fruit, fibre and breakfast consumption increased with increasing income, and that consumption of added sugar decreased (13) .…”

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Diet quality, nutrition and physical activity among adolescents: the Web-SPAN (Web-Survey of Physical Activity and Nutrition) project

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Objective: To assess the overall diet quality of a sample of adolescents living in Alberta, Canada, and evaluate whether diet quality, nutrient intakes, meal behaviours (i.e. meal skipping and consuming meals away from home) and physical activity are related. Design: A cross-sectional study design. Students completed the self-administered Web-Survey of Physical Activity and Nutrition (Web-SPAN). Students were classified as having poor, average or superior diet quality based on Canada's Food Guide to Healthy Eating (CFGHE). Setting: One hundred and thirty-six schools (37 %) within forty-four public and private school boards (75 %) in Alberta, Canada. Subjects: Grade 7 to 10 Alberta students (n 4936) participated in the school-based research. Results: On average, students met macronutrient requirements; however, micronutrient and fibre intakes were suboptimal. Median CFGHE food group intakes were below recommendations. Those with poor diet quality (42 %) had lower intakes of protein, fibre and low-calorie beverages; higher intakes of carbohydrates, fat and Other Foods (e.g. foods containing mostly sugar, high-salt/fat foods, high-calorie beverages, low-calorie beverages and high-sugar/fat foods); a lower frequency of consuming breakfast and a higher frequency of consuming meals away from home; and a lower level of physical activity when compared with students with either average or superior diet quality. Conclusions: Alberta adolescents were not meeting minimum CFGHE recommendations, and thus had suboptimal intakes and poor diet quality. Suboptimal nutritional intakes, meal behaviours and physical inactivity were all related to poor diet quality and reflect the need to target these health behaviours in order to improve diet quality and overall health and wellness.

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Diet quality, nutrition and physical activity among adolescents: the Web-SPAN (Web-Survey of Physical Activity and Nutrition) project

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“…Few studies have examined adolescents' dietary patterns using factor analysis (4)(5)(6) . While lower socio-economic status (7) , overweight (8) , sedentary behaviours (9) and parental smoking (10) have been linked to poorer diet quality in children, these have not been widely examined in relation to adolescents' dietary patterns. Identifying factors that influence the dietary patterns of adolescents may assist in targeting at-risk groups and developing strategies to improve dietary intakes.…”

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Adolescent dietary patterns are associated with lifestyle and family psycho-social factors

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Objective: Dietary intake during adolescence contributes to lifelong eating habits and the development of early risk factors for disease in adulthood. Few studies have examined the dietary patterns of adolescents and the social and environmental factors that may affect them during this life stage. The present study describes dietary patterns in a cohort of adolescents and examines their associations with socioeconomic factors, as well as parental and adolescent risk factor behaviours. Design: A semi-quantitative FFQ was used to assess study adolescents' usual dietary intake over the previous year. Information was collected on family functioning and various socio-economic and risk factor variables via questionnaire.

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“…Previous research on adolescent fat intake has engaged predominantly White samples (Neumark-Sztainer, Story, & Perry, 2001;Sanchez et al, 2007;Stanton, Fries, & Danish, 2003;Zabinksi et al, 2006). Moreover, results regarding the relationship between age and total fat intake have been mixed, making comparisons between findings from this study and findings from previous research difficult.…”

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Dietary fat intake among urban, African American adolescents

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This study examined commonly consumed high-fat food sources to estimate dietary fat intake among 314 urban, African American adolescents (mean age (SD) = 12.57 (.98) years; 66% female; 91% African American non-Hispanic; and 9% African American Hispanic). Youths' fat intake was measured using the Block Fat Screener. Most (77%) participants had diets very high in fat (i.e., 40% to 50% of energy). Mean frequencies of consumption revealed youths' preferences for the following high-fat food items: corn chips, potato chips, popcorn, and crackers; fried chicken; and doughnuts, pastries, cake, and cookies. Total fat intake differed based on youths' age. Urban, African American adolescents can benefit from intervention to lower their fat intake. Programs that target and address the food preferences and eating habits of this population are clearly needed.

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Patterns and Correlates of Physical Activity and Nutrition Behaviors in Adolescents

Abstract: Background-Knowledge of the prevalence, clustering, and correlates of multiple adolescent health behaviors can inform the design of health promotion interventions.

Cited by 173 publications

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Diet quality, nutrition and physical activity among adolescents: the Web-SPAN (Web-Survey of Physical Activity and Nutrition) project

Diet quality, nutrition and physical activity among adolescents: the Web-SPAN (Web-Survey of Physical Activity and Nutrition) project

Adolescent dietary patterns are associated with lifestyle and family psycho-social factors

Dietary fat intake among urban, African American adolescents

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