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Title: | Adolescents' views of food and eating: Identifying barriers to healthy eating |
Authors: | Stevenson, C Doherty, G Barnett, J Muldoon, OT Trew, K |
Keywords: | Adolescents;Healthy eating;Dieting;Food choice;Barriers;Eating behaviour |
Issue Date: | 2007 |
Publisher: | Elsevier |
Citation: | Journal of Adolescence 30(3): 417-434, Jun 2007 |
Abstract: | Contemporary Western society has encouraged an obesogenic culture of eating amongst youth. Multiple factors may influence an adolescent's susceptibility to this eating culture, and thus act as a barrier to healthy eating. Given the increasing prevalence of obesity amongst adolescents, the need to reduce these barriers has become a necessity. Twelve focus group discussions of single-sex groups of boys or girls ranging from early to-mid adolescence (N = 73) were employed to identify key perceptions of, and influences upon, healthy eating behaviour. Thematic analysis identified four key factors as barriers to healthy eating. These factors were: physical and psychological reinforcement of eating behaviour; perceptions of food and eating behaviour; perceptions of contradictory food-related social pressures; Q perceptions of the concept of healthy eating itself. Overall, healthy eating as a goal in its own right is notably absent from the data and would appear to be elided by competing pressures to eat unhealthily and to lose weight. This insight should inform the development of future food-related communications to adolescents. (c) 2006 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents. |
Description: | This is a postprint version of the article. The official published version can be accessed from the link below - © 2006 The Association for Professionals in Services for Adolescents Published by Elsevier Ltd. |
URI: | http://bura.brunel.ac.uk/handle/2438/6577 |
DOI: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2006.04.005 |
ISSN: | 0140-1971 |
Appears in Collections: | Publications Computer Science Dept of Computer Science Research Papers |
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