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Table 3 Dietary intake at Time 2 and television viewing behavior at Time 1 of older cohort (high school students at Time 1 and young adults at Time 2)1

From: Does television viewing predict dietary intake five years later in high school students and young adults?

 

Television Usea,b

 
 

Limited

(<2 hrs/day)

Moderately high

(2–5 hrs/day)

Heavy

(≥5 hrs/day)

 
 

n

%

n

%

n

%

 
 

486

35.6

664

48.6

216

15.8

 
 

mean

SE

mean

SE

mean

SE

p for linear trend

Total energy (kcal/day)

1837.1

33.7

1830.6

28.5

2041.0

50.2

.05

Fruit (serv/day)

1.70a

.05

1.60a

.04

1.25b

.07

<.001

Vegetable (serv/day)2

1.71a

.04

1.54a

.04

1.28b

.07

<.001

Whole grains (serv/day)3

.74a

.04

.64b

.03

.59b

.05

.002

Calcium-rich foods (serv/day)

2.78a

.05

2.67a,b

.04

2.50b

.07

<.001

% total fat

29.6

.2

30.0

.2

30.6

.3

.02

% saturated fat

10.3

.1

10.4

.09

10.5

.2

.23

% trans fat

1.2a

.01

1.2a,b

.01

1.3b

.02

.005

Fried food (serv/day)

.43a

.01

.47b

.01

.51b

.02

.001

Fast food (times/week)

2.03a

.04

2.17b

.03

2.33b

.06

<.001

Snack food (serv/day)

1.93a

.05

1.89a

.04

2.20b

.07

.012

Sugar-sweetened beverage (serv/day)

1.14a

.04

1.22a,b

.03

1.33b

.06

.004

  1. a,b Estimates in the same row marked with different letters are statistically significantly different from each other (p < .01).
  2. 1 Multiple regression models are adjusted for race/ethnicity, gender, socioeconomic status, total energy intake at Time 2, and dietary intake at Time 1.
  3. 2 Vegetable intake does not include servings of French fries.
  4. 3 Whole grains intake does not include chip servings.