Mediterranean Diet, Physical Fitness and Body Composition in Sevillian Adolescents: A Healthy Lifestyle
Childhoodandadolescentobesityhasbecomeoneofthemostvitalchallengestoovercome in the present age. Physical fitness, physical activity and the Mediterranean diet (MD) are valuable tools for its prevention and treatment. The main objective of this study is to analyze the associations between health-relat...
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| Tipo de recurso: | artículo |
| Estado: | Versión publicada |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2019 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universidad de Sevilla (US) |
| Repositorio: | idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:idus.us.es:11441/97866 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/11441/97866 https://doi.org/10.3390/nu11092009 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | lifestyle adolescents sedentary physical inactivity nutrition obesity health |
| Sumario: | Childhoodandadolescentobesityhasbecomeoneofthemostvitalchallengestoovercome in the present age. Physical fitness, physical activity and the Mediterranean diet (MD) are valuable tools for its prevention and treatment. The main objective of this study is to analyze the associations between health-related physical fitness components, body composition and adherence to the MD in 917adolescentsagedfrom13-to16-years-old. TheALPHA-FitnessTestwasusedtomeasurephysical fitnessandbodycomposition,andtheAdherencetotheMediterraneanDiet(KIDMED)questionnaire was employed to assess the adherence to the MD. The associations between variables were tested according to gender and age a generalized linear model (GLM) univariate analysis (two factors) and one-way analysis of variance (ANOVA, with Bonferroni posthoc). As to the body composition and physical fitness variables, significant differences were obtained in both genders but not in relation to the adherence to the MD. The boys performed better in the physical fitness tests. Age was a determinant factor in adherence to the MD in the total sample, lowering as the age of the sample increases. Both the boys and girls who had a significantly higher performance in the endurance test were those who showed high/medium adherence to the MD. It is concluded that higher levels of cardiovascular endurance in boys and girls are associated with a medium and high adherence to the MD. |
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