McAloney, Kareena, Graham, Hilary, Law, Catherine, Platt, Lucinda 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8251-6400, Wardle, Heather and Hall, Julia
(2014)
Fruit and vegetable consumption and sports participation among UK youth.
International Journal of Public Health, 59 (1).
pp. 117-121.
ISSN 1661-8556
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.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Official URL: | http://link.springer.com/journal/38 |
| Additional Information: | © 2013 Swiss School of Public Health |
| Divisions: | Social Policy |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Q Science > QP Physiology R Medicine > RA Public aspects of medicine > RA0421 Public health. Hygiene. Preventive Medicine R Medicine > RJ Pediatrics > RJ101 Child Health. Child health services |
| JEL classification: | I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I0 - General > I00 - General I - Health, Education, and Welfare > I1 - Health > I12 - Health Production: Nutrition, Mortality, Morbidity, Suicide, Substance Abuse and Addiction, Disability, and Economic Behavior |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Jan 2014 10:23 |
| Last Modified: | 12 Dec 2024 00:35 |
| Funders: | Public Health Research Consortium, Department of Health (DH) Policy Research Programme |
| URI: | http://eprints.lse.ac.uk/id/eprint/55442 |
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