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Lookup NU author(s): Dr Amelia Lake, Dr Robert Hyland, Emeritus Professor Andrew Rugg-Gunn, Professor John Mathers, Professor Ashley AdamsonORCiD
Eating habits are influenced by multiple factors from an individual's environment at various stages during progress through the life course. Links between diet in childhood and the prevention of disease in adulthood have been established. Determining what has influenced change in dietary behaviour over 20 years, from adolescence to adulthood, is a complex and multifaceted task. This paper describes the benefits of combining two different disciplines and two different methods i.e. nutrition and social science and quantitative and qualitative methods. The combination of these disciplines and methods brings added breadth and depth to the research which cannot be achieved by a single discipline or method. This longitudinal dietary study provided quantitative evidence of dietary change and investigated factors influencing dietary change from adolescence to adulthood. Change in food intake between adolescence and adulthood related to life-course events and trajectories. Parents, partners and children were perceived to have influenced dietary change. Other key influences were employment, limitations on time and awareness of nutrition and health. These findings help to explain the complex process of dietary change from adolescence to adulthood.
Author(s): Lake AA, Hyland RM, Rugg-Gunn A, Mathers JC, Adamson AJ
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: British Food Journal
Year: 2009
Volume: 111
Issue: 11
Pages: 1200-1211
Print publication date: 01/11/2009
Date deposited: 14/12/2009
ISSN (print): 0007-070X
ISSN (electronic): 1758-4108
Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Ltd.
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/00070700911001031
DOI: 10.1108/00070700911001031
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