4.4.1. Nutrition
adiposity
ADIPOSITY
Meeting recommended fruit and vegetable intake were independently associated with a range of improvements in cardiometabolic health outcomes, such as BMI, waist circumference, fat mass percentage, and diastolic BP, whilst rates of suboptimal dietary behaviours were associated with worse health outcomes. Significant correlations between daily fruit and vegetable serves with fat mass percentage, waist circumference, and BMI were to be expected as they may indicate women eating relatively healthier diets which have been previously reported in the general population to have well-established positive impacts on adiposity and BMI [