Shorter sleep among adolescents is associated with lower fruit and vegetable consumption the following day.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Insufficient sleep has been associated with weight gain and metabolic dysregulation, with one suggested mechanism being through reduction in diet quality. Experimental evidence supports a causal effect of sleep timings on diet but this may not be applicable to a free-living adolescent population. In this analysis we use daily measures of sleep timings and diet quality, to examine the effect of sleep duration and timing on diet quality the following day among free-living adolescents.

Methods

The ROOTS study is a prospective cohort recruited from secondary schools in Cambridgeshire and Suffolk (UK). Participants (n = 815) at mean age 15.0y (SD 0.3y) completed a diet diary and wore a combined heart rate and accelerometer device over 4 consecutive days. Sleep duration

SUBMITTER: Winpenny EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9906927 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature