Association between fruit and vegetable intake and change in body mass index among a large sample of children and adolescents in the United States

• Published in: International Journal of Obesity Vol. 27; no. 7; pp. 821 - 826
• Main Authors: Field, A.E, Gillman, M.W, Rosner, B, Rockett, H.R, Colditz, G.A
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: London Nature Publishing Group 01.07.2003; Nature Publishing Group UK; Nature Publishing
• Subjects: Adolescent; Adolescents; Age; Ambulatory care; Biological and medical sciences; Body Mass Index; boys; Child; Children; Children & youth; Cohort analysis; Cohort Studies; Developmental stages; Diet; energy intake; Epidemiology; Exercise; Feeding Behavior; Female; Food; food frequency questionnaires; Fruit; fruit consumption; Fruit juices; Fruits; Gender; Girls; Health aspects; Health Promotion and Disease Prevention; Hospitals; Human physiology applied to population studies and life conditions. Human ecophysiology; Humans; Internal Medicine; Male; Medical sciences; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Metabolic Diseases; Nutrition research; Nutritional survey. Food supply and nutritional requirement; Obesity; Prospective Studies; Public Health; Questionnaires; Reproducibility of Results; Self report; Standard scores; Teenagers; United States; vegetable consumption; Vegetables; United States; North America; America; United States > US; diet; adolescents; vegetables; fruit; BMI; Human; Body mass index; Vegetables; Fruit; Diet; Adolescent; Child; Food

OBJECTIVE: To assess whether intake of fruits and vegetables was associated with change in body mass index (BMI) among a large sample of children and adolescents in the United States. DESIGN: Prospective cohort study of children and adolescent who were 9-14 y of age in 1996, when the study began. SU...