2007 Jan;107(1):53-61

Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Missouri, Columbia, MO 65211-7700, USA. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

OBJECTIVE: To identify eating and activity factors associated with school-aged children's onset of overweight and persistent overweight.

Department of Health Education and Promotion, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands. Appetite. 2007 Mar;48(2):248-58. Epub 2006 Nov 15

Maureen Murphy, RN, BSN, and Barbara Polivka, RN, PhD

Am J Prev Med. 2007 Feb;32(2):163-72. Epub 2006 Dec 29

Department of Health Education and Health Promotion, Universiteit Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands.

BACKGROUND: The complexity of the relationship between environmental factors on the one hand and dietary behavior and physical activity on the other necessitates the search for moderators of environmental influences. The current evidence base is reviewed regarding potential moderating factors in the effectiveness of environmental interventions aimed at diet and/or physical activity of children and adolescents.

1: Eur J Clin Nutr. 2007 Jan 10;

1Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, Department of Social Medicine, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.

Objective:To compare the food and nutrient intakes of primary school children eating school dinners and packed lunches.

Nquyen SP.

Appetite. 2007 Jan;48(1):114-8. Epub 2006 Sep 7.

Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina, 601 South College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403 5612, USA.

This study explores how children evaluatively categorize foods based on their nutritional value. Three-year-olds, four-year-olds, seven-year-olds, and adults completed a task in which they categorized a list of 70 foods as healthy or junky. The results showed important developmental differences in participants' ability to accurately classify foods as healthy/junky and to provide relevant justifications for these classifications. These results suggest that a large amount of category learning occurs with development, especially as children incorporate different types of information about food nutrition into their evaluative category representations.

J AM Diet Assoc. 2007 Feb;107(2):256-64.

Fulgoni V 3rd, Nicholls J, Reed A, Buckley R, Kafer K, Huth P, Dirienzo D, Miller GD.

OBJECTIVE: To establish the first baseline of dairy and related nutrient intake in African Americans, an at-risk population of public health concern in the United States. To document dairy consumption in African Americans by age and sex during 1994-1998 and 1999-2000 and compare it with concomitant dairy, calcium, and related nutrient intakes in non-African-American adults and children.

Ayala GX, Mickens L, Galindo P, Elder JP.

Ethn Health. 2007 Feb;12(1):21-41.

Objectives. Examine the prevalence and predictors of body image dissatisfaction and disordered eating among Latino youth.

Haines J, Neumark-Sztainer D, Thiel L.

Eat Disord. 2007 Jan-Feb;15(1):5-21.

Division of Epidemiology and Community Health, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55454, USA. This email address is being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it

This study examined weight-related issues affecting elementary school children to gain insight into how best to address these issues within a school-based intervention. The study population included 21 students, 12 school staff members, and 21 parents from a school that serves an ethnically-diverse population. Data were collected using focus groups and individual interviews and were analyzed using qualitative research methodology. Weight-related teasing and poor body image emerged as prominent issues affecting students. Results suggest that programs aimed at the prevention of weight-related disorders should go beyond issues of nutrition and physical activity and include strategies to reduce weight-related mistreatment and to improve students' body image.