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Fruit And Vegetable Intake: Few Adolescent Girls Meet National Guidelines., Ruth Striegel Weissman
Fruit And Vegetable Intake: Few Adolescent Girls Meet National Guidelines., Ruth Striegel Weissman
Ruth Striegel Weissman
Objective.
To examine longitudinal changes in daily fruit and vegetable consumption among black and white adolescent girls and calculate the percent of girls who met the Healthy People 2010 recommendations.
Methods.
Girls (1186 black and 1126 white) who participated in the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute Growth Health Study (NGHS) were included if they had completed a 3-day food diary for at least one of six annual assessments visits, beginning at ages 11 or 12. Mixed models estimated the association of visit and race with (a) average daily consumption of fruits and vegetables and (b) the probability of meeting …
Psychological Factors In The Etiology Of Binge Eating, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore
Psychological Factors In The Etiology Of Binge Eating, Ruth H. Striegel-Moore
Ruth Striegel Weissman
Numerous psychological factors have been hypothesized to play a role in the etiology of binge eating. This chapter proposes that female gender-role socialization puts girls at risk for the development of binge eating. Moreover, it is proposed that an understanding of risk requires an exploration of the developmental tasks of female adolscence. As research of the etiology of binge eating in particular and eating disorders in general begins to move away from testing single-factor causal models and toward testing complex, multifactorial models of causation, research needs to examine the psychological factors discussed in this chapter.