Selected health behaviors that influence college freshman weight change.

Objective And Participants: The authors investigated the effect of physical activity (PA), fruit and vegetable intake, and alcohol use on 6-month weight change in 193 college freshmen (78.8% white, 88.2% women, 94.

Factors of fruit and vegetable intake by race, gender, and age among young adolescents.

Objective: To explore demographic differences in individual, social, and environmental factors potentially related to fruit and vegetable intake.

Design: Self-report questionnaires administered to a convenience sample of middle school students during regular classes.

Participants: Black and white adolescents, 11 to 15 years of age (N = 736).

Examining gender, racial, and age differences in weight concern among third, fifth, eighth, and eleventh graders.

Weight management and concern, body weight beliefs, and perceptions of friend's and family's weight concerns were examined in this study by race, grade, and gender. A stratified random sample was used to select schools within nine districts in South Carolina and an anonymous self-report paper-pencil questionnaire was completed by the students. The final sample included 3151 African American (42.

Covariations of adolescent weight-control, health-risk and health-promoting behaviors.

Objectives: To assess the prevalence of dieting and investigate clusters of risk behaviors among adolescents.

Methods: Data were secured from a random sample of adolescents (4,636) and analyzed using bivariate methods and logistic regression.

Results: From the survey sample, 19.

Dietary practices of South Carolina adolescents and their parents.

Objective: To assess and identify correlates of adolescents' and parents' compliance with food guide pyramid recommendations (FGPR) and weight-control behaviors (WCB).

Methods: Data were collected from a random sample of adolescents (2,021) and parents (1,231) and were analyzed using multiple and logistic regression.

Results: Only 7% eight graders, 4% eleventh graders, and 3% parents met all FGPR.

Differences in diet quality among fourth and seventh grade public school students in South Carolina.

The purpose of this study was to compare various aspects of diet quality between fourth graders and seventh graders. Consumption in each food group and food variety pattern suggested that dietary quality of fourth graders and seventh graders were different. Fourth graders showed "better" dietary behaviors than seventh graders with some variations among food groups and differences regarding gender.