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Overweight, weight concerns, and bulimic behaviors among girls and boysA E Field
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 38:754-60. 1999..To assess the prevalence rates and correlates of overweight, concern with weight, and bulimic behaviors...- Relationship of a large weight loss to long-term weight change among young and middle-aged US womenA E Field
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 25:1113-21. 2001..To assess the prevalence of clinically significant weight loss among women and whether this is associated with smaller long-term weight gains... - Peer, parent, and media influences on the development of weight concerns and frequent dieting among preadolescent and adolescent girls and boysA E Field
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 107:54-60. 2001..To assess prospectively the influence of peers, parents, and the media on the development of weight concerns and frequent dieting... - Smoking, getting drunk, and engaging in bulimic behaviors: in which order are the behaviors adopted?Alison E Field
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 41:846-53. 2002..To assess the relation between beginning to binge-eat or purge, beginning to smoke, and getting drunk for the first time... - Relation of peer and media influences to the development of purging behaviors among preadolescent and adolescent girlsA E Field
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 153:1184-9. 1999..To assess prospectively the relation of peer and media influences on the risk of development of purging behaviors... - Reproducibility and validity of a food frequency questionnaire among fourth to seventh grade inner-city school children: implications of age and day-to-day variation in dietary intakeA E Field
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, USA
Public Health Nutr 2:293-300. 1999.... - Impact of overweight on the risk of developing common chronic diseases during a 10-year periodA E Field
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, 181 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Intern Med 161:1581-6. 2001..Overweight adults are at an increased risk of developing numerous chronic diseases... - Activity, dietary intake, and weight changes in a longitudinal study of preadolescent and adolescent boys and girlsC S Berkey
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 105:E56. 2000..To examine the role of physical activity, inactivity, and dietary patterns on annual weight changes among preadolescents and adolescents, taking growth and development into account... - Snack food intake does not predict weight change among children and adolescentsA E Field
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:1210-6. 2004..To assess whether intake of snack foods was associated with weight change among children and adolescents... - Association of weight change, weight control practices, and weight cycling among women in the Nurses' Health Study IIA E Field
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 28:1134-42. 2004..Low levels of activity and binge eating may be partially responsible for the large amount of weight regained by weight cyclers... - Risk of overweight among adolescents who were breastfed as infantsM W Gillman
Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, 126 Brookline Ave, Suite 200, Boston, MA 02215, USA
JAMA 285:2461-7. 2001..Physiological and behavioral mechanisms and preliminary epidemiologic data suggest that breastfeeding could lower the risk of subsequent obesity in adolescence... - The disease burden associated with overweight and obesityA Must
Department of Family Medicine and Community Health, Tufts University School of Medicine, Boston, MA 02111, USA
JAMA 282:1523-9. 1999..Overweight and obesity are increasing dramatically in the United States and most likely contribute substantially to the burden of chronic health conditions... 
Family dinner and disordered eating behaviors in a large cohort of adolescentsJess Haines
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Eat Disord 18:10-24. 2010..Estimates of association among males were similar in direction and magnitude, although lower frequency of the outcomes resulted in less precise estimates and fewer statistically significant results...- Longitudinal study of skipping breakfast and weight change in adolescentsC S Berkey
Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:1258-66. 2003..Several cross-sectional studies reported that heavier children eat breakfast less often. However, no longitudinal studies have addressed whether skipping breakfast leads to excessive weight gain... - Cross-sectional measurement of nutrient intake among adolescents in 1996H R Rockett
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Prev Med 33:27-37. 2001..To address these issues and document the major contributions of fat, fiber, vitamins, and minerals to the diet, we analyzed baseline cross-sectional data from a cohort of 16,882 youth... - Physical activity in relation to long-term weight maintenance after intentional weight loss in premenopausal womenRania A Mekary
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:167-74. 2010..Increased PA, particularly high intensity activities, is associated with better maintenance of weight loss. The benefits of activity were greater among overweight/obese than normal weight women... - Family dinner and adolescent overweightElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, 133 Brookline Avenue, Sixth Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Obes Res 13:900-6. 2005..quot;DISCUSSION: The frequency of eating family dinner was inversely associated with overweight prevalence at baseline but not with likelihood of becoming overweight in longitudinal analyses... - Sexual orientation, gender, and alcohol use in a cohort study of U.S. adolescent girls and boysNajat J Ziyadeh
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 87:119-30. 2007..Sexual minority youth may be at elevated risk for alcohol use relative to heterosexual youth, but the reasons underlying higher rates and whether there may be gender differences in risk are not known... - Body satisfaction, weight gain and binge eating among overweight adolescent girlsK R Sonneville
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 36:944-9. 2012..To examine if body satisfaction is associated with body mass index (BMI) change and whether it protects against the development of frequent binge eating among overweight and obese adolescent girls... - Examination of shared risk and protective factors for overweight and disordered eating among adolescentsJess Haines
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Population Medicine, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 164:336-43. 2010..To identify shared risk and protective factors for purging, binge eating, and overweight... - Physical activity patterns and prevention of weight gain in premenopausal womenR A Mekary
Department of Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 2115, USA
Int J Obes (Lond) 33:1039-47. 2009..Studies of the association between physical activity (PA) and weight maintenance have been inconsistent... - Comparing physical activity questionnaires for youth: seasonal vs annual formatS L Rifas-Shiman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Am J Prev Med 20:282-5. 2001.... - Correlates of stress fractures among preadolescent and adolescent girlsKeith J Loud
Division of Adolescent/Young Adult Medicine, Children's Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 115:e399-406. 2005..In the meantime, clinicians should remain vigilant in identifying and treating disordered eating and menstrual irregularities among their highly active, young, female patients... - Validity of a food frequency questionnaire in assessing nutrient intakes of low-income pregnant womenE K Wei
Department of Epidemiology, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Matern Child Health J 3:241-6. 1999..The purpose of this study was to broaden the scope of the previous study by assessing the validity of the FFQ for 17 additional nutrients... - Association between fruit and vegetable intake and change in body mass index among a large sample of children and adolescents in the United StatesA E Field
Children s Hospital Boston, Division of Adolescent Medicine, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Int J Obes Relat Metab Disord 27:821-6. 2003..To assess whether intake of fruits and vegetables was associated with change in body mass index (BMI) among a large sample of children and adolescents in the United States... - Sugar-added beverages and adolescent weight changeCatherine S Berkey
Channing Laboratory, Departmetn of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obes Res 12:778-88. 2004..S. adolescents. Our aim was to evaluate the relationship between BMI changes and intakes of sugar-added beverages, milk, fruit juices, and diet soda... - Can neighborhoods explain racial/ethnic differences in adolescent inactivity?Tracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Int J Pediatr Obes 2:202-10. 2007..To determine if neighborhoods and their attributes contribute to racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent inactivity... - The validity of self-reported weight change among adolescents and young adultsAlison E Field
Children s Hospital Boston, LO 649, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:2357-64. 2007..To assess the association of weight change based on serial self-reported vs. measured weights... - Dietary fat and weight gain among women in the Nurses' Health StudyAlison E Field
Children s Hospital Boston, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Ave LO 649, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:967-76. 2007..To assess the association of dietary fat and weight gain among adult women and to investigate whether offspring of overweight parents have a greater predisposition to weight gain due to intake of dietary fat... - Race and gender differences in the association of dieting and gains in BMI among young adultsAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 15:456-64. 2007..To assess the relationship between dieting and subsequent weight change and whether the association varies by gender or race/ethnicity... - Longitudinal relationship between television viewing and leisure-time physical activity during adolescenceElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 119:e314-9. 2007..The goal was to examine the longitudinal associations of changes in television viewing and other sources of sedentary behavior with changes in leisure-time moderate/vigorous physical activity in adolescence... 
Family, peer, and media predictors of becoming eating disorderedAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital, 300 Longwood Ave, Room LO 649, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:574-9. 2008..To identify predictors of becoming eating disordered among adolescents...- Maternal gestational weight gain and offspring weight in adolescenceEmily Oken
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Obstet Gynecol 112:999-1006. 2008..To study associations of maternal gestational weight gain with offspring weight status in adolescence... - Sexual orientation disparities in weight status in adolescence: findings from a prospective studyS Bryn Austin
Department of Medicine, Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 17:1776-82. 2009..The long-term health consequences of overweight are well-documented and over time are likely to exact a high toll on populations with elevated rates... - Weight cycling and mortality among middle-aged or older womenAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA, USA
Arch Intern Med 169:881-6. 2009..Controversy exists about whether weight cycling increases morbidity and mortality... - Maternal gestational diabetes, birth weight, and adolescent obesityMatthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 111:e221-6. 2003.... - Sexual orientation disparities in purging and binge eating from early to late adolescenceS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
J Adolesc Health 45:238-45. 2009..To describe patterns of purging and binge eating from early through late adolescence in female and male youth across a range of sexual orientations... - Television viewing is not predictive of BMI in Black and Hispanic young adult femalesTracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obesity (Silver Spring) 18:1015-20. 2010..Among black and Hispanic females, counseling to decrease TV viewing may be important but insufficient for promoting weight loss... - Weight-control behaviors and subsequent weight change among adolescents and young adult femalesAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Am J Clin Nutr 91:147-53. 2010..Little is known about the effectiveness of behavioral strategies to prevent long-term weight gain among adolescents and young adults... - Relation between dieting and weight change among preadolescents and adolescentsAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 112:900-6. 2003..To assess whether dieting to control weight was associated with weight change among children and adolescents... - Comparison of self-report to interview assessment of bulimic behaviors among preadolescent and adolescent girls and boysAlison E Field
Channing Laboratory, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Int J Eat Disord 35:86-92. 2004..To compare self-report to interview assessment of bulimic behaviors among adolescents... - Weight status in childhood as a predictor of becoming overweight or hypertensive in early adulthoodAlison E Field
Children s Hospital Boston, Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obes Res 13:163-9. 2005..To assess the extent to which weight status in childhood or adolescence predicts becoming overweight or hypertensive by young adulthood... - Sexual orientation, weight concerns, and eating-disordered behaviors in adolescent girls and boysS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston 02115, MA
J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry 43:1115-23. 2004..To examine sexual orientation group differences in eating disorder symptoms in adolescent girls and boys... - Weight cycling and the risk of developing type 2 diabetes among adult women in the United StatesAlison E Field
Channing Laboratory, Brigham and Women s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Obes Res 12:267-74. 2004..To assess the role of weight cycling independent of BMI and weight change in predicting the risk of developing type 2 diabetes... - Which metric of relative weight best captures body fatness in children?Alison E Field
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston and Harvard Medical School, 300 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Obes Res 11:1345-52. 2003.... - Race differences in accuracy of self-reported childhood body size among white and black womenAlison E Field
Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Obes Res 12:1136-44. 2004..To assess the relation of self-reported current and recalled preadolescent body size to measured BMI (kilograms per meter squared) and interviewer's assessment of body size... - Exposure to the mass media, body shape concerns, and use of supplements to improve weight and shape among male and female adolescentsAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA
Pediatrics 116:e214-20. 2005..To assess the prevalence and correlates of products used to improve weight and shape among male and female adolescents... - Association of consumption of fried food away from home with body mass index and diet quality in older children and adolescentsElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA, USA
Pediatrics 116:e518-24. 2005.... - Weight concerns and weight control behaviors of adolescents and their mothersAlison E Field
Division of Adolescent Young Adult Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:1121-6. 2005..To assess the association between weight concerns and weight control practices of adolescents and their mothers... - Breast-feeding and overweight in adolescence: within-family analysis [corrected]Matthew W Gillman
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Floor, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Epidemiology 17:112-4. 2006..These associations may be confounded by sociocultural determinants of both breast-feeding and obesity. We addressed this possibility by assessing the association of breast-feeding duration with adolescent obesity within sibling sets... - Primary care of the elite or elite-emulating adolescent male athleteKeith J Loud
Department of Psychiatry, Children's Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Adolesc Med 14:647-61, vii. 2003 - Can school income and racial/ethnic composition explain the racial/ethnic disparity in adolescent physical activity participation?Tracy K Richmond
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Department of Medicine, Children s Hospital Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Pediatrics 117:2158-66. 2006..Our goal was to determine if racial/ethnic disparities in adolescent boys' and girls' physical activity participation exist and persist once the school attended is considered... - The influence of wanting to look like media figures on adolescent physical activityElsie M Taveras
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
J Adolesc Health 35:41-50. 2004..To examine the association of adolescents' wanting to look like figures in the media with physical activity levels... - The impact of a school-based obesity prevention trial on disordered weight-control behaviors in early adolescent girlsS Bryn Austin
Division of Adolescent and Young Adult Medicine, Children s Hospital, Boston, MA 02115, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 159:225-30. 2005..To assess the impact of an obesity prevention intervention on use of self-induced vomiting/laxatives (purging) and diet pills to control weight in girls in early adolescence... - Predicting sexual initiation in a prospective cohort study of adolescentsSusan H Gray
Department of Pediatrics, Boston Medical Center, 850 Harrison Ave, Boston, MA 02118, USA
Arch Pediatr Adolesc Med 162:55-9. 2008..To determine whether a new scale measuring beliefs about postponing sexual initiation (PSI) predicts sexual initiation and whether the association between PSI and sexual initiation is mediated by intention to initiate sexual intercourse... - Alcohol intake and 8-year weight gain in women: a prospective studyS Goya Wannamethee
Department of Primary Care and Population Science, Royal Free and University College Medical School, Rowland Hill Street, London NW3 2PF, United Kingdom
Obes Res 12:1386-96. 2004..To examine prospectively the relationship between alcohol and 8-year weight gain in women... - Patterns and determinants of physical activity in U.S. adolescentsJessica A Kahn
Division of Adolescent Medicine, Cincinnati Children s Hospital Medical Center, University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
J Adolesc Health 42:369-77. 2008..S. adolescents and to assess the effect of multiple individual, parental, and environmental factors on initial level and rates of change in adolescent physical activity... - Frequent tanning bed use, weight concerns, and other health risk behaviors in adolescent females (United States)Alison E Field
Prevention and Control Program, Cancer Research Center of Hawai'i, Honolulu, HI, USA
Cancer Causes Control 17:679-86. 2006..This effect may be mediated by peer influence and a desire to look like other females in the media. Multi-pronged approaches, particularly those that target attitudes of young females, are needed to combat increased use of tanning beds... - Self-assessment of pubertal stage in overweight childrenSandra Bonat
Unit on Growth and Obesity, Developmental Endocrinology Branch, National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892 1862, USA
Pediatrics 110:743-7. 2002..Little is known about whether such self-assessments are accurate in obese children. We therefore determined the reliability of Tanner stage self-assessments in both nonobese and obese children... - Anabolic steroid abuse among teenage girls: an illusory problem?Gen Kanayama
Biological Psychiatry Laboratory, McLean Hospital Harvard Medical School, 115 Mill Street, Belmont, MA 02478, USA
Drug Alcohol Depend 88:156-62. 2007..We questioned whether AAS use among teenage girls was as widespread as claimed... - The adverse effect of negative comments about weight and shape from family and siblings on women at high risk for eating disordersC Barr Taylor
Department of Psychiatry, Stanford Medical Center, 401 Quarry Rd, Stanford, California 94305 5722, USA
Pediatrics 118:731-8. 2006..Our purpose with this work was to examine the relationship between negative comments about weight, shape, and eating and social adjustment, social support, self-esteem, and perceived childhood abuse and neglect... - Population-based prevention of obesity: the need for comprehensive promotion of healthful eating, physical activity, and energy balance: a scientific statement from American Heart Association Council on Epidemiology and Prevention, Interdisciplinary CommiShiriki K Kumanyika
Circulation 118:428-64. 2008..The evidence-based experience for population-wide approaches to obesity prevention is highlighted...