“Where” and “What” Do Adolescent Athletes Learn When It Comes to Food Literacy Compared With Adolescents that Do Not Play Sports? A Gender-Based Thematic Analysis
Improving all adolescents' food literacy starts with developing skills to judge information credibility (e.g., media literacy). Programs, where adolescent athletes and nonathletes learn together,should also address challenges these groups face, such as eating for performance compared with socialization, the impact of gender on how adolescents view associations between food and mental health, and credible sources of information.
Authors
- Kimberley Hernandez
- Olívia Wu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0570-6016)
- Tamara R. Cohen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9773-9965)
- Alysha L. Deslippe (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5941-3307)
- Coralie Bergeron
- Emilie Comtois-Rousseau
Institutions
- Health Canada (CA)
- University of British Columbia (CA)
- Children's & Women's Health Centre of British Columbia (CA)
- Canadian Nutrition Society (CA)
- Nutrition Sciences (Belgium) (BE)
- BC Children's Hospital (CA)
- Ottawa University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Current Developments in Nutrition
- Published
- 2024-12-11
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cdnut.2024.104525
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Obesity, Physical Activity, Diet
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 2.17
Funders
- Canada Foundation for Innovation
- University of British Columbia
- Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada