Social relationships and healthful dietary behaviour: evidence from over-50s in the EPIC cohort, UK.

ABSTRACT: Social relationships are an important aspect of a person's social environment that can protect against a wide range of chronic conditions and facilitate recovery from disease. Social relationships have also been linked to dietary behaviour which may be an important pathway through which social circumstances exert their influence on health. Yet, questions remain about which structural aspects of social relationships most affect healthful dietary behaviours and whether different structural components interact to produce a combined effect. Using data from adults (≥50 years) in the European Prospective Investigation of Cancer-Norfolk study (1996-2002), we examined marital status, living arrangement and social isolation in relation to scores for variety of fruit and vegetable intake as a marker

SUBMITTER: Conklin AI 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3969105 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature