Table 3.
Characteristics of Dutch women and men (>18 years) with diets of low, intermediate and high environmental load based on habitual GHGE for a day’s consumption
| Women | Men | |||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| All women | Low (n 351) | Intermediate (n 350) | High (n 350) | All men | Low (n 352) | Intermediate (n 352) | High (n 351) | |||||||||||
| Mean | sd | Model† | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Model† | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | Mean | sd | |
| Age (years) | 42·0 | 15·0 | ** | 40·7 | 15·3 | 41·8 | 14·8 | 43·6 | 14·6 | 42·2 | 15·1 | NS | 42·4 | 15·5 | 41·7 | 15·1 | 42·5 | 14·8 |
| Participant’s education (%)‡ | NS | NS | ||||||||||||||||
| Low | 37 | 39 | 34 | 37 | 30 | 29 | 28 | 34 | ||||||||||
| Middle | 42 | 41 | 45 | 41 | 46 | 46 | 49 | 43 | ||||||||||
| High | 21 | 20 | 20 | 22 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 23 | ||||||||||
| Urbanization (%)§ | NS | NS | ||||||||||||||||
| High | 49 | 49 | 48 | 51 | 50 | 51 | 51 | 48 | ||||||||||
| Moderate | 23 | 23 | 24 | 22 | 21 | 23 | 21 | 20 | ||||||||||
| Low | 28 | 28 | 28 | 27 | 29 | 26 | 28 | 32 | ||||||||||
| BMI (kg/m2) | 26·1 | 5·7 | NS | 25·8 | 5·5 | 25·8 | 5·3 | 26·5 | 6·1 | 25·8 | 4·1 | NS | 26·0 | 4·3 | 25·9 | 4·3 | 25·5 | 3·7 |
| BMR (MJ/d) | 6·2 | 0·8 | NS | 6·2 | 0·8 | 6·2 | 0·8 | 6·2 | 0·8 | 7·8 | 0·8 | NS | 7·8 | 0·8 | 7·9 | 0·9 | 7·8 | 0·8 |
| PA (MET×h/week) | 172 | 110 | NS | 164 | 97 | 172 | 125 | 181 | 105 | 172 | 111 | * | 164 | 121 | 171 | 106 | 181 | 106 |
GHGE, greenhouse gas emissions; PA, physical activity; MET, metabolic equivalent of task.
*P<0·05, **P<0·01, ***P<0·001.
Model to evaluate associations per age and gender group, model adjusted for age.
Education: low=primary education, lower vocational education and advanced elementary education; middle=intermediate vocational education and higher general secondary education; high=higher vocational education and university.
Urbanization: high, ≥1500 addresses/km2; moderate, 1000–<1500 addresses/km2; low, <1000 addresses/km2.