Krolner R, Rasmussen M, Brug J, Klepp K - I, Wind M, Due P. Determinants of fruit and
vegetable consumption among children and adolescents: a review of the literature.
A school salad bar increases frequency of fruit and
vegetable consumption among children living in low - income households
Reicks M, Redden JP, Mann T, Mykerezi E, Vickers Z. Photographs in lunch tray compartments and
vegetable consumption among children in elementary school cafeterias.
Over the weekend, the New York Times had a front page article reporting on declining
vegetable consumption among American adults.
In the U.S., the 5 - A-Day program is now called Fruits & Veggies - More Matters but the goal is the same: to increase daily fruit and
vegetable consumption among Americans.
Not exact matches
Among public health measures for the prevention of obesity are the need to restrict the
consumption of energy - dense snacks and sugar - sweetened soft drinks and to increase the
consumption of whole grains and energy - dilute
vegetables and fruit (15).
Here's a «program with a purpose» as part of Dole's mission to increase America's nutritional health through greater fruit and
vegetable consumption and to reverse a number of negative health trends,
among them poor diet and inadequate exercise as the leading causes of preventable death.
This project is federally funded through the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) to increase the availability, knowledge and
consumption of fruits and
vegetables among school children.
A new study suggests that
among healthy adults with a habitual sleep duration of at least 6.5 hours, late sleep timing was associated with higher fast food
consumption and lower
vegetable intake, particularly
among men, as well as lower physical activity.
Random surveys within the accompanying studies showed physical activity,
vegetable preference and knowledge of nutrition and plant science increased
among more than 1,369 third grade students while sugar - sweetened beverage
consumption decreased.
IRRI says that the Green Revolution may have actually increased malnutrition
among the poor.19
Consumption of
vegetables in most Asian countries has remained stagnant since the Green Revolution and
vegetable prices have increased in both real and relative terms.20 In India, annual rice and wheat production has more than tripled from pre-Green Revolution levels.
Vegetable oil
consumption has been linked to a host of other problems,
among them (from the same article above):
Objective: We assessed the association between
consumption of partially hydrogenated
vegetable oils (PHVOs) and non-HVOs and circulating concentrations of inflammatory markers
among Tehrani women aged 40 — 60 y.
Consumption of hydrogenated versus non-hydrogenated
vegetable oils and risk of insulin resistance and the metabolic syndrome
among Iranian adult women
About 100 years ago, the industrial revolution introduced technology that allowed for the refining of
vegetable and seed oils, which led to a dramatic increase in the
consumption of omega - 6 fatty acids
among the industrialized countries.
The Association of
Consumption of Fruits /
Vegetables With Decreased Risk of Glaucoma
Among Older African - American Women in the Study of Osteoporotic Fractures.
«For all of us involved in promoting better consumer health, increasing
consumption of fruits and
vegetables is
among our main objectives.
Prospective study of fruit and
vegetable consumption and risk of lung cancer
among men and women.
Although the Greenland Inuit are the world's heaviest cigarette smokers and although their
consumption of fruits and
vegetables has been virtually zero until recently and although they add lots of salt when they eat their fish, seal meat / blubber, and whale meat / blubber, the Greenland Inuit have only half the age - adjusted total cancer death rate of Americans and cardiovascular disease is virtually nonexistent
among the Greenland Inuit: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9447397
To date, four clinical trials have attempted to identify whether increased
consumption of fruits and
vegetables leads to weight loss
among individuals who are overweight.
In this study, the researchers investigate whether
consumption of fruits and
vegetable with a higher fiber content or lower glycemic load is more strongly associated with a healthy weight than
consumption of fruits and
vegetables with a lower fiber content or higher glycemic load by analyzing data on weight and diet changes
among US men and women enrolled in three large prospective cohort studies set up to examine risk factors for major chronic diseases.
Previous clinical trials similarly have mixed findings: increased
consumption of total fruits and
vegetables over 3 mo was associated with weight loss
among 103 overweight individuals with sleep - related eating disorders [28], but not over 6 mo
among 690 healthy study participants [29], or over 2 mo in 50 healthy men and women [30].
Vegetable consumption tends to increase as individuals age, but fruit
consumption is highest
among the very young and oldest individuals in the population.
It is
among the first studies to reliably measure student
consumption of entrees, fruits,
vegetables, and milk during lunch before and after the healthier standards took effect.
This interpretation is strengthened by the observation that the associations
among television and children's
consumption of fruits,
vegetables, and juices; all meats; and pizza, salty snacks, and soda remained statistically significant in the full regression models, where the effects of socioeconomic and other confounding factors were controlled.