Shorter sleep among adolescents is associated with lower fruit and vegetable consumption the following day - International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity

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A study in the International Journal of Behavioral Nutrition and Physical Activity finds that shorter sleep duration among adolescents is associated with a decreased fruit/vegetable intake the following day.

]. Participants were recruited via 18 secondary schools across Cambridgeshire and Suffolk, UK from 2005 to 2006. At baseline, when participants were mean age 14·5 years , demographic and psychosocial measures were self-reported. Six months later, a sub-study was conducted focussing on diet, physical activity and body composition, in which participants completed a diet diary and simultaneously wore an activity monitor uninterrupted for four consecutive days.

]. Where sleep onset and sleep end times could not be ascertained from the activity plots, these cases were excluded. Prior to assessing sleep timings on this dataset, the researcher completed a training dataset discussing any discrepancies with a physical activity measurement specialist.Participants were provided with a 4-day diet diary to complete, which included two weekdays and two weekend days.

 

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