Orange juice (750 mL/d) improved blood lipid profiles in hypercholesterolemic subjects, confirming recommendations to consume >/=5-10 servings of fruit and vegetables daily.

Objective-To investigate school-aged children's and parents' attitudes, social influences, and intentions toward excessive screen-related sedentary behaviour (S-RSB).Design-A cross-sectional study using a survey methodology.Setting-Elementary schools in London, Ontario, Canada.Participants-All grades five and six students, their parents and teachers in the participating schools were invited to voluntarily participate; 508 student-parent pairs completed the surveys. Main Outcome Measure-Children's screen-related behaviours.Analysis-Data were analyzed using the Independent Student t-test to compare differences of continuous variables and the Chi-Square test to test for differences of categorical variables.Results-Children spent 3.3 ± 0.15 (standard error) hours per day engaged in screen-related activities. Entertainment, spending time with family, and boredom were cited as the top three reasons for television viewing and video game playing. Compared to "low-screen-users" (i.e. < 2hours/day), "high-screen-users" (i.e. ≥2hours/day) held less negative attitudes toward excessive S-RSB and perceived loosened parental rules on screen use. Parents of "high-screen-users" held less negative attitudes towards children's S-RSB, had fewer rules about their children's screen use, and were more likely to be sedentary themselves.Conclusions and Implications-Intervention strategies aimed at reducing S-RSB should involve both parents and children and should focus on fostering behavioural changes and promoting parental role-modeling.

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Canadian primary health care providers are not adequately equipped to deal with the paediatric obesity epidemic. Effective assessment tools and treatment resources, dissemination of clinical practice guidelines, enhanced undergraduate medical education and postgraduate continuing medical education, and system-level changes are urgently needed to address this health problem.