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Voluntary nutrition guidelines to support healthy eating in recreation and sports settings are ineffective: findings from a prospective study

Interventions to support healthy eating among populations are needed to address diet-related chronic disease. Recreation and sport settings are increasingly identified as ideal settings for promoting overall health, particularly for children, through creation of environments that support positive he...

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Autores principales: McIsaac, Jessie-Lee D, Jarvis, Sherry, Olstad, Dana Lee, Naylor, PJ, Rehman, Laurene, Kirk, Sara FL
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
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Publicado: AIMS Press 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6322998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30631783
http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2018.4.411
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author McIsaac, Jessie-Lee D
Jarvis, Sherry
Olstad, Dana Lee
Naylor, PJ
Rehman, Laurene
Kirk, Sara FL
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description Interventions to support healthy eating among populations are needed to address diet-related chronic disease. Recreation and sport settings are increasingly identified as ideal settings for promoting overall health, particularly for children, through creation of environments that support positive health behaviours. These publicly funded settings typically support health through physical activity promotion. However, the food environment within them is often not reflective of nutrition guidelines. As more jurisdictions release nutrition guidelines in such settings, the purpose of this study was to assess whether voluntary nutrition guidelines, released in 2015 in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, had any impact on food environments in these settings. Baseline and follow-up audits of food environments were conducted one year before (in 30 facilities) and one year after guideline release (in 27 facilities). Audits involved classifying all foods and beverages within vending machines and concessions as Do Not Sell, Minimum, Moderate, or Maximum nutrition, using criteria provided in the guidelines. The proportion of items within each category was calculated, and differences from pre- to post-guideline release were assessed using Chi-squared statistics. Results indicated limited change in food and beverage provision from pre- to post- guideline release. In fact, from pre- to post-guideline release, the proportion of Do Not Sell vending beverages and concession foods increased significantly, while Maximum concession beverages decreased, suggesting a worsening of the food environment post-guideline release. Findings suggest that voluntary guidelines alone are insufficient to improve food environments in recreation and sport settings. For widespread changes in the food environment of these settings to occur, more attention needs to be paid to reducing social, cultural, political and economic barriers to change (real and perceived) that have been identified in these settings, alongside developing leadership and capacity within facilities, to ensure that positive changes to food environments can be implemented and sustained.
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spelling pubmed-63229982019-01-10 Voluntary nutrition guidelines to support healthy eating in recreation and sports settings are ineffective: findings from a prospective study McIsaac, Jessie-Lee D Jarvis, Sherry Olstad, Dana Lee Naylor, PJ Rehman, Laurene Kirk, Sara FL AIMS Public Health Research Article Interventions to support healthy eating among populations are needed to address diet-related chronic disease. Recreation and sport settings are increasingly identified as ideal settings for promoting overall health, particularly for children, through creation of environments that support positive health behaviours. These publicly funded settings typically support health through physical activity promotion. However, the food environment within them is often not reflective of nutrition guidelines. As more jurisdictions release nutrition guidelines in such settings, the purpose of this study was to assess whether voluntary nutrition guidelines, released in 2015 in the Canadian province of Nova Scotia, had any impact on food environments in these settings. Baseline and follow-up audits of food environments were conducted one year before (in 30 facilities) and one year after guideline release (in 27 facilities). Audits involved classifying all foods and beverages within vending machines and concessions as Do Not Sell, Minimum, Moderate, or Maximum nutrition, using criteria provided in the guidelines. The proportion of items within each category was calculated, and differences from pre- to post-guideline release were assessed using Chi-squared statistics. Results indicated limited change in food and beverage provision from pre- to post- guideline release. In fact, from pre- to post-guideline release, the proportion of Do Not Sell vending beverages and concession foods increased significantly, while Maximum concession beverages decreased, suggesting a worsening of the food environment post-guideline release. Findings suggest that voluntary guidelines alone are insufficient to improve food environments in recreation and sport settings. For widespread changes in the food environment of these settings to occur, more attention needs to be paid to reducing social, cultural, political and economic barriers to change (real and perceived) that have been identified in these settings, alongside developing leadership and capacity within facilities, to ensure that positive changes to food environments can be implemented and sustained. AIMS Press 2018-11-08 /pmc/articles/PMC6322998/ /pubmed/30631783 http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2018.4.411 Text en © 2018 the Author(s), licensee AIMS Press This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)
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title_full Voluntary nutrition guidelines to support healthy eating in recreation and sports settings are ineffective: findings from a prospective study
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title_full_unstemmed Voluntary nutrition guidelines to support healthy eating in recreation and sports settings are ineffective: findings from a prospective study
title_short Voluntary nutrition guidelines to support healthy eating in recreation and sports settings are ineffective: findings from a prospective study
title_sort voluntary nutrition guidelines to support healthy eating in recreation and sports settings are ineffective: findings from a prospective study
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6322998/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30631783
http://dx.doi.org/10.3934/publichealth.2018.4.411
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