title: Residential summer camp intervention improves camp food environment.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To evaluate the effects on fruit and vegetable (FV) intake of a camp-based intervention to improve the food environment.
  
  
  METHODS
  The intervention was evaluated in a variant of the recurrent institutional cycle design in a sample of 311 youth aged 7 to 13 years. FV intake and targeted environmental variables were assessed among youth who received the intervention relative to those who attended the camp before the program was implemented.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Improvements occurred in the frequency and variety of FVs served, counselor informational and instrumental support for FV consumption, and in older youth who received nutrition education lessons, perceived peer attitudes towards eating FVs and FV intake.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Improving the camp food environment can improve FV intake among youth in this setting.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, USA. dinoiaj@wpunj.edu.
authors.forename: Jennifer
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Di Noia
authors.affiliation: Career Development and Gloria S. Williams Advisement Center, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Lynne
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Orr
authors.affiliation: Department of Nutritional Sciences, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
authors.forename: Carol
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Byrd-Bredbenner
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002165:Camping; D002648:Child; D004032:Diet; D004435:Eating; D005260:Female; D005518:Food Preferences; D005522:Food Services; D005638:Fruit; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012621:Seasons; D012944:Social Support; D014675:Vegetables