"Where" and "What" Do Adolescent Athletes Learn When It Comes to Food Literacy Compared With Adolescents that Do Not Play Sports? A Gender-Based Thematic Analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Food literacy skills (e.g., nutrition knowledge, social, cultural, economic, and environmental impacts of food) play a role in high school (13-18 y) athletes' health and performance. Literature suggests that adolescents are rarely taught concepts beyond nutrition knowledge, and experiences differ with gender or sports involvement. To improve all adolescents' food literacy, we aimed to clarify differences in athletes' and nonathletes' food literacy to inform food literacy program design.

Objectives

The objective of this study was to contrast athletes' and nonathletes' food literacy using a gender lens.

Methods

We conducted 33 semistructured interviews with adolescents from a high school. Adolescents were recruited to balance sports involvement and sex with e

SUBMITTER: Deslippe AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11803840 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature