Is health promotion in sports clubs associated with adolescent participants' fruit and vegetable consumption?

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"Funding This work was supported by the Ministry of Education and Culture (grant numbers: 6/091/2011, 28/626/2016), the Finnish Cultural Foundation, the Kerttu Saalasti Foundation and the Juho Vainio Foundation. Conflicts of interest: None declared. Key pointsMost sports clubs had a strong orientation towards health promotion, but health promotion activities aimed at adolescent participants had not been comprehensively realized.Only half of the adolescent sports club participants consumed fruits and/or vegetables daily.Adolescent sports club participants’ daily fruit and/or vegetable consumption was positively associated with female gender, better self-rated health, higher average school grades and their own responses that their coach had often discussed nutrition.This study highlights the need for future work to investigate which policies and practices are effective in sports clubs’ healthy eating promotion and how they can be implemented in sports clubs’ daily activities."