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The Association Between Adolescents’ Food Literacy, Vegetable and Fruit Consumption, and Other Eating Behaviors
Adolescents’ intake of vegetables and fruits is generally low, and many demonstrate unhealthy eating behaviors. Food literacy may be key to improving adolescents’ nutrition. However, the relationship between food literacy, fruit and vegetable intake, and other healthy eating behaviors remains unclea...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9350450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35373626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10901981221086943 |
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description | Adolescents’ intake of vegetables and fruits is generally low, and many demonstrate unhealthy eating behaviors. Food literacy may be key to improving adolescents’ nutrition. However, the relationship between food literacy, fruit and vegetable intake, and other healthy eating behaviors remains unclear, as well as how these relationships may differ among boys and girls. This study assessed the relationship between food literacy (including food skills and cooking skills), vegetable and fruit consumption, and other eating behaviors of adolescents. This cross-sectional study included 1,054 students, including 467 boys and 570 girls from five francophone high schools in New Brunswick, Canada. Quantitative data on students’ food and cooking skills, vegetable and fruit consumption, and other eating behaviors were collected with a self-reported questionnaire. Multilevel regressions were used to assess the relationship between food literacy, students’ consumption of vegetables and fruits, and other eating behaviors. Better cooking skills were associated with healthier eating behaviors and greater vegetable and fruit consumption for boys and girls. Better food skills were also associated with healthier eating behaviors and greater vegetable and fruit consumption among both genders. These findings highlight the importance of improving food literacy among adolescents. Public health interventions should focus on increasing cooking and food skills to improve adolescents’ nutrition. |
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spelling | pubmed-93504502022-08-05 The Association Between Adolescents’ Food Literacy, Vegetable and Fruit Consumption, and Other Eating Behaviors LeBlanc, Jasmine Ward, Stephanie LeBlanc, Caroline P. Health Educ Behav Youth Health Adolescents’ intake of vegetables and fruits is generally low, and many demonstrate unhealthy eating behaviors. Food literacy may be key to improving adolescents’ nutrition. However, the relationship between food literacy, fruit and vegetable intake, and other healthy eating behaviors remains unclear, as well as how these relationships may differ among boys and girls. This study assessed the relationship between food literacy (including food skills and cooking skills), vegetable and fruit consumption, and other eating behaviors of adolescents. This cross-sectional study included 1,054 students, including 467 boys and 570 girls from five francophone high schools in New Brunswick, Canada. Quantitative data on students’ food and cooking skills, vegetable and fruit consumption, and other eating behaviors were collected with a self-reported questionnaire. Multilevel regressions were used to assess the relationship between food literacy, students’ consumption of vegetables and fruits, and other eating behaviors. Better cooking skills were associated with healthier eating behaviors and greater vegetable and fruit consumption for boys and girls. Better food skills were also associated with healthier eating behaviors and greater vegetable and fruit consumption among both genders. These findings highlight the importance of improving food literacy among adolescents. Public health interventions should focus on increasing cooking and food skills to improve adolescents’ nutrition. SAGE Publications 2022-04-02 2022-08 /pmc/articles/PMC9350450/ /pubmed/35373626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10901981221086943 Text en © The Author(s) 2022 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access pages (https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage). |
spellingShingle | Youth Health LeBlanc, Jasmine Ward, Stephanie LeBlanc, Caroline P. The Association Between Adolescents’ Food Literacy, Vegetable and Fruit Consumption, and Other Eating Behaviors |
title | The Association Between Adolescents’ Food Literacy, Vegetable and
Fruit Consumption, and Other Eating Behaviors |
title_full | The Association Between Adolescents’ Food Literacy, Vegetable and
Fruit Consumption, and Other Eating Behaviors |
title_fullStr | The Association Between Adolescents’ Food Literacy, Vegetable and
Fruit Consumption, and Other Eating Behaviors |
title_full_unstemmed | The Association Between Adolescents’ Food Literacy, Vegetable and
Fruit Consumption, and Other Eating Behaviors |
title_short | The Association Between Adolescents’ Food Literacy, Vegetable and
Fruit Consumption, and Other Eating Behaviors |
title_sort | association between adolescents’ food literacy, vegetable and
fruit consumption, and other eating behaviors |
topic | Youth Health |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9350450/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35373626 http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/10901981221086943 |
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