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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 …
Race Differences In Accuracy Of Self-Reported Childhood Body Size Among White And Black Females, Ruth Striegel Weissman
Race Differences In Accuracy Of Self-Reported Childhood Body Size Among White And Black Females, Ruth Striegel Weissman
Ruth Striegel Weissman
Objective: To assess the relation of self-reported current and recalled preadolescent body size to measured BMI (kilograms per meter squared) and interviewer's assessment of body size.
Research Methods and Procedures: This was a prospective cohort study of 1890 white and black women who were 9 to 10 years old at time of enrollment and were followed up 10 to 13 years later. At baseline, subjects had their weight and height measured and were asked to indicate their current body size from a series of nine pictograms. A sample of the subjects also had their body size evaluated by …