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Dietary habits in adolescent male and female handball players: the Swedish Handball Cohort
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Objectives: This cross-sectional study aimed to describe dietary habits in Swedish adolescent handball players and differences with respect to sex and school grade. Methods: Participants in the Swedish Handball Cohort answered a web-survey assessing adherence to sports nutrition recommendations for meal frequency and meal timing, and the Nordic Nutrition Recommendations (NNR) for fruits/vegetables and fish/seafood, food exclusions and use of dietary supplements. Differences with respect to sex and school grade were estimated with generalised linear models, generating prevalence ratios (PR) with 95% CIs. Results: A total of 1040 participants (16.6±0.9 years, 51% males) were included. Overall, 70% and 90%, respectively, met recommendations for meal frequency and meal timing, whereas adherence to recommended carbohydrate intake during training/game was met by 17%. Adherence to the NNR for fruits/vegetables and fish/seafood was met by 16% and 37%, respectively. Twenty-eight per cent reported using dietary supplements. Females reported lower frequency of meals, especially morning snacks (−0.6 days/week (95% CI −0.3 to −0.9)) and evening snacks (−0.8 days/week (95% CI −0.5 to –1.1)), higher prevalence of exclusions due to intolerances (PR 1.66 (95% CI 1.31 to 2.01)) and other reasons (PR 1.36 (95% CI 1.08 to 1.64)), higher adherence to the NNR for fruits/vegetables (PR 2.30 (95% CI 1.98 to 2.62)) and use of micronutrient supplements (PR 1.72 (95% CI 1.43 to 2.00)) compared with males. Only small differences were observed between school grades. Conclusions: Swedish adolescent handball players’ dietary habits are fairly in accordance with sports nutrition recommendations but not the NNR. Females appear to display more restrictive habits than males.
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- Onell, C., Skillgate, E., Melin, A., Källberg, H., Waldén, M., Edlund, K., Hägglund, M., Côté, P., & Asker, M.
- Affiliations
- Department of Health Promotion Science, Sophiahemmet University, Stockholm, Sweden
- Department of Sport Science, Linnaeus University, Växjö/Kalmar, Sweden
- Unit of Public Health, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Unit of Physiotherapy, Department of Health, Medicine and Caring Sciences, Linköping University, Linköping, Sweden
- Institute for Disability and Rehabilitation Research, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Ontario Institute of Technology, Oshawa, Ontario, Canada
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- BMJ Open Sport & Exercise Medicine
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- BMJ
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- 2023-12
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- 9
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- 4
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- e001679
- ISSN
- 2055-7647
- Cited by
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- References
- 5
- Language
- en
- Funders
- Centrum för idrottsforskning (2020/3 P2021-0147, 2021/9 P2022-0167)
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