Research demonstrates that the concurrent adoption of healthy eating (e.g. 60th percentile
of healthy eating index [
[1]
]) and moderate-to-vigorous physical activity (e.g. ≥150 MVPA min/week [
[2]
]), compared to none or only one of these behaviors, is more favorably associated with
reduced risk of premature mortality [
2008 Physical Activity Guidelines for Americans — paguide.pdf, (n.d.). http://www.health.gov/paguidelines/pdf/paguide.pdf (accessed August 4, 2015).
3
,
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,
5
,
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,
7
] and perceived health-related quality of life (HRQOL) [
[8]
]. Less investigated, however, is the potential interaction effect of healthy eating
and physical activity (PA) on HRQOL and mortality; to our knowledge, this research
has utilized crude measures of PA (e.g., self-report) [
4
,
5
,
6
,
7
]. To assess whether objectively meeting PA guidelines has protective effects among
those with unhealthy eating habits, and similarly, whether healthy eating has protective
effects among those who are less active (via objective assessment), we created 4 mutually
exclusive groups as follows: Group 1: physically active and healthy diet (n = 730); Group 2: physically active and unhealthy diet (n = 1,218); Group 3: physically inactive and healthy diet (n = 1,370); and Group 4: physically inactive and unhealthy diet (n = 1,932).Keywords
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Publication history
Published online: September 20, 2015
Accepted:
September 18,
2015
Received:
August 25,
2015
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