Funded in part by PepsiCo, General Mills
Whole grain consumption is inversely associated with BMI Z-score in rural school-aged children
Choumenkovitch SF, McKeown NM, Tovar A, Hyatt RR, Kraak VI, Hastings AV, Herzog JB, Economos CD
Public health nutrition · 31 citations
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How it was studied
- Design
- Cross-sectional study (indexed by PubMed)
- Studied in
- People
- Main outcome
- Health markers and function
- Intake measured by
- Food frequency questionnaire
Who paid for it
- Funding
- Industry funded
- Company
- PepsiCo
- Company
- General Mills
- University or hospital
- Deakin University
Based on 3 listed funder(s).
Publication
- Published
- 2012-08-16 · Public Health Nutr · vol. 16 · issue 2 · pp. 212–218
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Cited
- 49 citations · more than 94% of similar papers · 4.2× the field average
- Impact
- Top 10% most cited in its field
- References
- 49 works
- Access
- Free to read
- Research areas
- Food composition and properties · Nutritional Studies and Diet · Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Keywords
- Whole grains, Medicine, Overweight, Refined grains, Obesity, Logistic regression, Demography, Physical activity, Residence, Childhood obesity, Cross-sectional study, Odds ratio, Body mass index, Environmental health, Standard score, Gerontology, Food science, Internal medicine, Physical therapy, Mathematics
- MeSH
- humans, obesity, body mass index, diet, logistic models, odds ratio, cross-sectional studies, energy intake, food handling, child, rural population, united states, female, male, edible grain
8 authors
From US
- Silvina Furlong Choumenkovitch · correspondingTufts University
- Nicola Mary McKeownTufts University; Jean Mayer Human Nutrition Research Center on Aging
- Alison TovarTufts University
- Raymond R. HyattTufts University
- Vivica I. KraakSave the Children
- Alia V HastingsTufts University
Abstract
Objective
To examine the relationship between intake of whole grains and BMI Z-score in rural children.
Design
General linear models and logistic regression were used to examine the cross-sectional associations between whole grain intake and BMI Z-score, prevalence and odds ratios of overweight and obesity. Dietary intake was assessed using the Block Food Screener for ages 2-17 years. Children were classified into three categories according to servings of whole grain intake: 1·5 servings/d.
Setting
The CHANGE (Creating Healthy, Active and Nurturing Growing-up Environments) study, an obesity prevention intervention in elementary schools in eight rural US communities in California, Mississippi, Kentucky and South Carolina.
Subjects
Seven hundred and ninety-two children attending 3rd-6th grade.
Results
After adjusting for age, sex, race/ethnicity, physical activity and state of residence, whole grain intake was inversely associated with BMI Z-score (0·90 v. 0·61 in the lowest v. the highest whole grain intake category; P trend = 0·01). Children who consumed >1·5 servings of whole grains/d had a 40 % lower risk of being obese (OR = 0·60; 95 % CI 0·38, 0·95, P = 0·02) compared with children who consumed <1·0 serving/d. Further adjustment for potential dietary predictors of body weight (fruit, vegetable and dairy intakes) did not change the observed associations.
Conclusions
Increasing the intake of whole grains as part of an overall healthy lifestyle may be beneficial for children to achieve and maintain a healthy weight.
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