Changes in diet through adolescence and early adulthood: longitudinal trajectories and association with key life transitions.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early adulthood is a period associated with poor diet and rapid weight gain. This is also an age of transition, including environmental, social and lifestyle changes which may be associated with changes in diet. We assess longitudinal associations between four early adulthood life transitions (leaving home, leaving education, entering employment, and cohabitation) and changes in consumption of fruit, vegetables, confectionery and sugar-sweetened beverages (SSBs).

Methods

Participants (n = 1100) from the Norwegian Longitudinal Health Behaviour Study, reported data on diet and life transitions on up to eight occasions from age 14 to age 30. Diet data were self-reported in response to questions on intake of fruit, vegetables, confectionery and sugar-sweetened beverag

SUBMITTER: Winpenny EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6131755 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature