Journal
JOURNAL OF ADOLESCENT HEALTH
Volume 60, Issue 3, Pages 270-276Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.jadohealth.2016.09.020
Keywords
Fast food; Fruits and vegetables; Weight; BMI; Waist circumference; Percent body fat
Funding
- Global Obesity Prevention Center at Johns Hopkins
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development
- Office of the Director, National Institutes of Health [1 U54-HD070725-01]
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Purpose: To investigate agreement and associations between parent and youth acknowledgment of home food rules, youth eating behaviors, and measures of body composition and excess weight. Methods: Parent-youth dyads (N = 413) completed the rules for eating at home scale (Active Where Survey) and reported dietary intake. Trained research staff obtained anthropometric data. Linear regression analyses separately evaluated relationships between youth and parent acknowledgment of rules and youth-reported eating behaviors and anthropometric outcomes. Food rules were evaluated as a 12-item scale and individually. Results: Score on the food rule scale was positively associated with fruit and vegetable servings by youth acknowledgment only (beta = .09, p = .006), and not with anthropometric outcomes. The rule no desserts except fruit was positively associated with fruit and vegetable servings by youth (beta = .72, p = .002) and parent (beta = .53, p = .03) acknowledgment. The rules no second helpings at meals and limited fast food were positively associated with body mass index z-score by youth (beta = .38, p = .002; beta = .32, p = .02, respectively) and parent (beta = .74, p < .001; beta = .41, p = .006, respectively) acknowledgment, with similar results for waist circumference z-score and percent body fat. Conclusions: Inverse associations between specific food rules and healthful eating behaviors but positive associations with anthropometric outcomes suggest potentially bidirectional relationships between food rule implementation and youth weight. Future studies should disentangle how food rules guide youth behavior in the context of youth weight status. (C) 2016 Society for Adolescent Health and Medicine. All rights reserved.
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