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Fruit and vegetable consumption and sports participation among UK Youth

Authors: Kareena McAloney, Hilary Graham, Catherine Law, Lucinda Platt, Heather Wardle, Julia Hall

Published in: International Journal of Public Health | Issue 1/2014

Abstract

Objectives

UK guidelines for youth recommend daily physical activity and five portions of fruit and vegetables per day. This study examined the prevalence and clustering of meeting recommendations among 10- to 15-year old.

Methods

Data for 3,914 youth, from the first wave of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, were analysed. Clustering was assessed using the observed/expected ratio method.

Results

A minority of youth met both recommendations, and these behaviours were clustered. The odds of meeting both recommendations were lower for older youth and for Pakistani and Bangladeshi youth; boys in lower income households were less likely to meet both recommendations.

Conclusions

Most youth met neither recommendation and the behaviours clustered with variations by ethnicity and socioeconomic conditions.

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Title: Fruit and vegetable consumption and sports participation among UK Youth
Authors: Kareena McAloney
Hilary Graham
Catherine Law
Lucinda Platt
Heather Wardle
Julia Hall
Publication date: 01-02-2014
Publisher: Springer Basel
Published in: International Journal of Public Health / Issue 1/2014
Print ISSN: 1661-8556
Electronic ISSN: 1661-8564
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00038-013-0523-9

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Fruit and vegetable consumption and sports participation among UK Youth

Abstract

Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusions

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Abstract

Objectives

Methods

Results

Conclusions

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