Variety and total number of food items recorded by a true longitudinal group of urban black South African children at five interceptions between 1995 and 2003: the Birth-to-Twenty (Bt20) Study.

Objective: To report on the variety and total number of food items recorded by a true longitudinal group of urban black South African children (n = 143) from the Birth-to-Twenty Study at five interceptions at the ages of 5 (1995), 7 (1997), 9 (1999), 10 (2000) and 13 (2003) years, respectively.

Methods: Dietary intake was assessed using a semi-quantitative food-frequency questionnaire. Frequencies were calculated per week, for each interception and for all five interceptions combined, using SAS.

Eating attitudes in a group of 11-year-old urban South African girls.

OBJECTIVES: To explore and describe eating attitudes in early pubertal 11-year-old black and white South African girls in an urban environment undergoing transition. DESIGN: The study was designed as a cross-sectional baseline initiative within a longitudinal study. SUBJECTS: Two hundred and two subjects were randomly selected; 54 were white and 148 black.