title: Fruit and vegetable consumption and sports participation among UK Youth.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  UK guidelines for youth recommend daily physical activity and five portions of fruit and vegetables per day. This study examined the prevalence and clustering of meeting recommendations among 10- to 15-year old.
  
  
  METHODS
  Data for 3,914 youth, from the first wave of Understanding Society: the UK Household Longitudinal Study, were analysed. Clustering was assessed using the observed/expected ratio method.
  
  
  RESULTS
  A minority of youth met both recommendations, and these behaviours were clustered. The odds of meeting both recommendations were lower for older youth and for Pakistani and Bangladeshi youth; boys in lower income households were less likely to meet both recommendations.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Most youth met neither recommendation and the behaviours clustered with variations by ethnicity and socioeconomic conditions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Sciences, University of York, York, UK, kareena.mcaloney@gcu.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Kareena
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: McAloney
authors.forename: Hilary
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Graham
authors.forename: Catherine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Law
authors.forename: Lucinda
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Platt
authors.forename: Heather
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Wardle
authors.forename: Julia
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Hall
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D016001:Confidence Intervals; D005247:Feeding Behavior / Q000208:ethnology; D005260:Female; D005638:Fruit; D006801:Humans; D008137:Longitudinal Studies; D008297:Male; D009043:Motor Activity; D013177:Sports; D006113:United Kingdom; D014675:Vegetables