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Study shows black churches can help improve healthy behaviors

CHAPEL HILL - Black churches, long a source of spiritual comfort and community for their members, also can help improve people's eating habits and other behaviors to make them healthier, according to a major new study involving a dozen researchers, three Triangle universities and state health experts.

The study -- the largest of its kind ever done -- was conducted by Dr. Marci K. Campbell, assistant professor of nutrition at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill schools of public health and medicine, and colleagues. It was intended to determine whether church-related activities could change ingrained eating habits.

Nutrition and other health experts now believe reducing dietary fat and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption can cut cancer risks, which are higher and increasing among blacks, while providing other significant health benefits as well.

"We found we could boost the amount of fruits and vegetables people in the study consumed by about a serving a day," said Campbell, also a member of the UNC Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. "One serving equals a half cup of fruit or cooked vegetables, a cup of salad or six ounces of 100 percent fruit juice. That doesn't sound like a lot, but when you think of this amount of change across the large sample of 2,500 people involved, that everyone was surveyed regardless of their level of participation and that the effect has lasted for at least two years, it's actually pretty impressive."

A report on the research appears in the September issue of the American Journal of Public Health.

Besides Campbell, authors are Dr. Michael Symons, Dr. William D. Kalsbeek, Dr. Janice Dodds, Dr. Bethany Jackson, Justin Lashley and Seleshi Demissie of the UNC-CH School of Public Health; Dr. Wendy Demark-Wahnefried and Kim Hoben of Duke University; Arnette Cowan and Brenda Motsinger of the N.C. Department of Health and Human Resources and Dr. Jacquely
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Contact: David Williamson
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919-962-8596
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
31-Aug-1999


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