BODY WEIGHT, DIET, EXERCISE--MODULATION IN HISPANIC TEENS

改善营养状况和定期进行有氧运动 青少年是2000年的具体国家目标。 青少年的饮食一直以放牧和广泛多样化为特征， 包括病态肥胖的增加；通过氨基酸增强体质 补充；暴食症和周期性暴食-呕吐；以及通过 厌食症。经常出现某种程度的扭曲的身体图像， 反映青少年的兴趣和关注，以实现感知到的 理想的身体形象以及个人人格。因为 饮食/锻炼对健康有深远的影响，不仅是现在，而且可能 展望未来，这项建议的目标是最适合西班牙裔男孩和 女孩们。这项健康和营养研究试点提案将：1) 确定西班牙裔青少年认为影响体重的因素； 2)描述西班牙裔青少年的饮食模式以及如何做到这一点 反映在选定的人体测量中(例如体重、身体 体重指数、臂中肌围；3)表征通常的有氧运动 运动模式(能量消耗)与所选项目的关系 人体测量参数(例如，体重、体重指数、手臂中部 肌围)；4)确定高强度教育对 增强对能量平衡概念的认识/理解，改进 人体测量，改善营养/卡路里质量 入口处。青少年可以进行的简单人体测量分析 将为他们提供实用的工具来瞄准他们想要的身体 体重和体重指数。同样，简单的饮食和锻炼工具也会 对能源平衡的这些参数进行持续评估 青少年对此感兴趣。将对所有初始筛选参数进行评估 在对控制组和试验组的随访中重复， 与初始参数进行比较，以确定自 初步筛查。我们假设这是一种“欢快的”、有趣的、有教育意义的 经验将导致对能量平衡的更好理解， 营养和锻炼，并积极挑战他们在2000年和 更远一点。

Enhancement of nutritional status and regular aerobic exercise of adolescents are specific national target goals for the year 2000. Adolescent diets have been characterized as grazing and widely diversified, including increases in morbid obesity; body building via amino acid supplementation; bulimia with cyclic bingeing-vomiting; and starvation via anorexia. Some degree of distorted body image is frequently present, reflecting the interest and concern of adolescents to achieve a perceived ideal body image as well as an individual personhood. Because diet/exercise have a profound impact on health, not only now but perhaps into the future, this proposal aims at TOP FIT-2000 for Hispanic boys and girls. This pilot health and nutrition research proposal will: 1) determine factors that modulate body weight as perceived by Hispanic teens; 2) characterize the diet pattern of Hispanic teens and how this may be reflected in selected anthropometric measurements (e.g. body weight, body mass index, mid-arm muscle circumference; 3) characterize the usual aerobic exercise pattern (energy expenditure) in relationship to selected anthropometric parameters (e.g., body weight, body mass index, mid-arm muscle circumference); 4) determine the impact of intense education on enhanced knowledge/understanding of energy balance concept, improved anthropometric measurements, and improved quality of nutrient/calorie intake. Simple anthropometric analysis that can be done by adolescents will provide them with practical tools to target their own desirable body weight and body mass index. Likewise, simple diet and exercise tools will make an ongoing assessment of these parameters for energy balance of interest to teens. Assessment of all initial screening parameters will be repeated in follow up for both control and experimental groups, with comparison to the initial parameters to determine significant changes since initial screening. We hypothesize that this "up-beat", fun, educational experience will result in improved understanding of energy balance, nutrition and exercise, and positively challenge them to TOP FIT 2000 and beyond.