diet, physical activity, and obesity in school-aged indigenous youths in northern australia饮食、身体活动和肥胖学龄土著年轻人在澳大利亚北部.pdfVIP

Hindawi Publishing Corporation Journal of Obesity Volume 2012, Article ID 893508, 12 pages doi:10.1155/2012/893508 Clinical Study Diet, Physical Activity, and Obesity in School-Aged Indigenous Youths in Northern Australia 1 2 3 ` 2 Patricia C. Valery, Torukiri Ibiebele, Mark Harris, Adele C. Green, Andrew Cotterill,3 Aletia Moloney,4 Ashim K. Sinha,5 and Gail Garvey1 1 Menzies School of Health Research, Charles Darwin University, P.O. Box 10639 Brisbane Adelaide Street, QLD 4000, Australia 2 Queensland Institute of Medical Research, Herston, QLD 4006, Australia 3 Mater Children’s Hospital, South Brisbane, QLD 4010, Australia 4 University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4067, Australia 5 Cairns Base Hospital, Cairns, QLD 4870, Australia Correspondence should be addressed to Patricia C. Valery, patricia.valery@.au Received 30 November 2011; Revised 28 March 2012; Accepted 28 March 2012 Academic Editor: Jenifer I. Fenton Copyright © 2012 Patricia C. Valery et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Purpose. To examine the relationship between diet, physical activity, and obesity in Indigenous youths from northern Australia. Methods. In a cross-sectional study, physical activity and dietary intake (“short nutrition questionnaire”) were assessed among all youths during a face-to-face interview. For 92 high school youths, additional dietary information was assessed using a food- frequency questionnaire. Height and weight were measured and BMI