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Childhood whole‐grain intake and young adult obesity
Author(s) -
Flint Alan John,
Field Alison,
Rimm Eric
Publication year - 2013
Publication title -
the faseb journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.709
H-Index - 277
eISSN - 1530-6860
pISSN - 0892-6638
DOI - 10.1096/fasebj.27.1_supplement.847.30
Subject(s) - medicine , obesity , whole grains , prospective cohort study , percentile , confounding , incidence (geometry) , childhood obesity , demography , cohort , cohort study , young adult , pediatrics , overweight , food science , biology , statistics , physics , mathematics , sociology , optics
The authors conducted a prospective analysis of the relationship between intake of whole grains in childhood and the incidence of obesity in young adulthood, among participants in the prospective cohort Growing Up Today Study. Intakes were estimated from food frequency questionnaires administered annually in 1996–1998, when participants ranged in age from 9 to 16 years. Overall, 767 of the 10,302 children and adolescents aged 11 to 16 years who were not obese (below the 95th percentile weight for age and sex) in 1998 went on to become obese as adults (BMI ≥ 30 kg/m2) by the time they were 18 to 25 years of age in 2005–2007. The quintile category median intakes of whole grains ranged from 7.8 g/d to 32.4 g/d. Intake of whole grains (highest vs. lowest quintile) was inversely associated with incident obesity, RR 0.70 (95% CI 0.55–0.89), p for trend = 0.002, in multivariate models adjusting for potential confounding factors. Intake of total bran, RR 0.70 (95% CI 0.55–0.90), total germ, RR 0.69 (95% CI 0.54–0.88) and cereal fiber RR 0.74 (95% CI 0.58–0.95) were also inversely associated with development of obesity. These findings have implications for future dietary guidelines for children and the prevention of obesity in young adults.