Changes in breakfast frequency and composition during adolescence: The Adolescent Nutritional Assessment Longitudinal Study, a cohort from Brazil.

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

To estimate changes over time of breakfast frequency and foods/food groups consumed at breakfast.

Methods

Cohort of 809 students aged 10-16 years old from Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, enrolled in 2010, and followed for three years. Breakfast skippers were those not eating breakfast. Those with breakfast frequency of 4 or less times per week were considered irregular breakfast eaters. Changes over time of breakfast frequency and breakfast foods/food groups were analyzed by generalized estimating equations.

Results

At baseline, overweight/obese girls had higher prevalence of irregular breakfast than those non-overweight/obese (40% vs. 26%; p = 0.005); among boys, there was no significant difference in the prevalence of irregular breakfast according to weight statu

SUBMITTER: Hassan BK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6053140 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature