{"id":1142,"date":"2020-11-18T15:00:07","date_gmt":"2020-11-18T18:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/?p=1142"},"modified":"2023-04-14T11:41:30","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T14:41:30","slug":"healthy-habits-healthy-girls-brazil-and-sustainable-dietary-changes-for-adolescents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/2020\/11\/18\/healthy-habits-healthy-girls-brazil-and-sustainable-dietary-changes-for-adolescents\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cHealthy Habits, Healthy Girls – Brazil\u201d and sustainable dietary changes for adolescents"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ana Carolina Barco Leme, post-doctorate, Faculdade de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Sonia Tucunduva Philippi, Faculdade de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, SP, Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dr. Regina Mara Fisberg, Faculdade de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica, Universidade de S\u00e3o Paulo, SP, Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Camila Laurentino Guedes, graduate of nutrition of Centro Universit\u00e1rio S\u00e3o Camilo, Centro Universit\u00e1rio S\u00e3o Camilo, SP, Brazil.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>The \u201cHealthy Habits, Healthy Girls – Brazil\u201d was developed by researchers from the University of S\u00e3o Paulo and was an adaptation of an Australian program (Lubans, Morgan et al. 2010) for obesity prevention for adolescent girls. The project was conducted in the 1st<\/sup> semester of 2014 in 10 public schools from the city of S\u00e3o Paulo. Five of them participated in the program, while the others served as a basis for comparison.<\/p>\n

The program had several components for helping to change lifestyle behaviors. They included cooking classes and nutrition workshops, enhanced physical education classes for girls, interactive seminars, nutrition and physical activity weekly messages, handbooks, WhatsApp\u00ae group messages, and monthly parents\u2019 newsletters. Several behaviors were assessed before the start of the program, at immediate post-intervention (6 months), and after 6 months from the end of the program (12 months).<\/p>\n

From the components evaluated, the diet was assessed using an index that determines their quality (Previdelli, Andrade et al. 2011) with 9 adequacy and 3 moderation components. Thus, it was assessed the diet quality of 253 girls after participating in the prevention program for weight-related concerns. The diet quality was assessed in the article intitled \u201cChanges in diet quality 6 and 12 months post-intervention: the Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls: a Brazilian study\u201d(Leme, Philippi et al. 2020).<\/p>\n

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Image: LEME, A.C., et al.<\/p><\/div>\n

These programs approach to focus on a positive relationship between food and weight, through integrating risk factors for eating disorders, i.e., body image satisfaction, weight control behaviors, and weight-teasing (Leme, Haines et al. 2021). Although the adolescents have not presented a body weight reduction, they showed maintenance in a healthy weight, with improvement on overall diet quality. Some diet quality components showed an improvement after the intervention, and they were total fruits, total vegetables, and dark green and orange vegetables, and whole grains.<\/p>\n

Programs such the \u201cHealthy Girls\u201d can serve as a framework for implementation in Brazilian schools for the encouragement of changes in lifestyle behaviors.<\/p>\n

References<\/h3>\n

LEME, A. C. et al. Impact of strategies for preventing obesity and risk factors for eating disorders among adolescents: a systematic review. Nutrients<\/em> [online]. 2020. [viewed 16 November 2020]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3390\/nu12103134<\/a>. Available from: https:\/\/www.preprints.org\/manuscript\/202008.0299\/v1<\/a><\/p>\n

LEME, A. C., et al.<\/em> The “Healthy Habits, Healthy Girls” randomized controlled trial for girls: study design, protocol, and baseline results. Cadernos de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica<\/em> [online]. 2015, vol. 37, n. 7, pp. 1381-1394 [viewed 16 November 2020]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1590\/0102-311X00136014<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/zg6gv6<\/a><\/p>\n

LUBANS, D. R. et al.<\/em> The Nutrition and Enjoyable Activity for Teen girls (NEAT girls) randomized controlled trial for adolescent girls from disadvantaged secondary schools: rationale, study protocol, and baseline results. Bmc Publica Health<\/em> [online] 2010, vol. 10 [viewed 16 November 2020]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1186\/1471-2458-10-652<\/a>. Available from: https:\/\/bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com\/articles\/10.1186\/1471-2458-10-652<\/a><\/p>\n

PREVIDELLI, A. N. et al.<\/em> A revised version of the Healthy Eating Index for the Brazilian population. Revista de Sa\u00fade P\u00fablica<\/em> [online]. 2011, vol. 45, n. 4, pp. 794-798 [viewed 16 November 2020]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1590\/S0034-89102011005000035<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/fff96g<\/a><\/p>\n

To read the article, acess<\/h3>\n

LEME, A.C., et al. <\/em>Mudan\u00e7as na qualidade da dieta em 6 e em 12 meses p\u00f3s-interven\u00e7\u00e3o: H\u00e1bitos Saud\u00e1veis, Meninas Saud\u00e1veis: estudo brasileiro. Rev. Nutr.<\/em> [online]. 2020, vol.33 [viewed 16 November 2020]. https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1590\/1678-9865202033e190184<\/a>. Available from: http:\/\/ref.scielo.org\/n7n7b7<\/a><\/p>\n

External links<\/h3>\n

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The \u201cHealthy Habits, Healthy Girls – Brazil\u201d program was an obesity prevention program for adolescents. Overall diet quality and the intake of fruits, vegetables, and whole grains were improved after program completion. Strategies for changing eating behaviors are needed as children and adolescents are reporting inadequate eating behaviors. …<\/span> Read More →<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":114,"featured_media":1145,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[12,85],"tags":[211,86],"class_list":["post-1142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-releases","category-rn","tag-nutritional-science","tag-revista-de-nutricao"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/114"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1147,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142\/revisions\/1147"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1145"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pressreleases.scielo.org\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}