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Published in final edited form as: Int J Public Health. 2009 Sep;54(Suppl 2):167–179. doi: 10.1007/s00038-009-5408-6

Table 2.

Eating patterns (%) by region, country and gender

Country	Eating fruit daily		Eating vegetables daily		Eating breakfast daily		Not consuming soft drinks daily

	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls	Boys	Girls
Non-European countries
Canada	34	44^*	37	45^*	66	54^*	82	89^*
Israel^¥	40^†	45^†^*	39^†	47^†^*	51^†	41^*	54^†	55
United States	38	41^*	34	39^*	54	42^*	64	69^*
Central-European countries
Austria	30	40^*	14	19^*	56	48^*	76	83^*
Belgium Fl	30	41^*	51	65^*	75	68^*	55	65^*
Belgium W^¥	42	47^*	42^†	55^*	67	63^†^*	65	73^†^*
France	29	33^*	39	45^*	71	62^*	70	77^*
Germany	30	41^*	19	29^*	68	60^*	78	84^*
Luxemburg	31	43^*	25	33^*	63	55^*	68	76^*
Netherland	27	38^*	37	47^*	84	78^*	60	68^*
Switzerland	36	47^*	35	45^*	59	51^*	72	78^*
Southern-European countries
Croatia	36	39^*	25	29^*	60	54^*	65	72^*
Greece	29	31	27	36^*	47	39^*	81	89^*
Italy	41	45^*	23	30^*	74	64^*	66	77^*
Macedonia	37	47^*	31	41^*	64	65	63	64
Malta^¥	36	43^*	9	16^*	49	45	53	65^*
Portugal	41	46^*	23	28^*	84	79^*	71	77^*
Slovenia	34	47^*	21	27^*	44	41^*	71	79^*
Spain	30	36^*	16	21^*	79	72^*	75	79^*
Turkey	30	44^*	23	30^*	64	56^*	79	82^*
Eastern-European countries
Bulgaria	35	37	33	38^*	70	62^*	49	51
Czech Rep.	33	45^*	24	32^*	52	44^*	66	73^*
Hungary	31	38^*	19	24^*	53	47^*	66	71^*
Poland	28	39^*	26	32^*	69	61^*	70	77^*
Romania	38	46^*	25	31^*	49	43^*	60	63^*
Russia	27	32^*	28	30^*	64	58^*	72	75^*
Slovakia	28	34^*	22	25	55	49^*	62	66^*
Ukraine	28	31^*	43	50^*	69	62^*	68	68
Northern-European countries
Denmark	35	48^*	33	41^*	77	70^*	88	94^*
England^¥	38^†	48^†^*	39^†	46^†^*	71^†	59^†^*	75^†	81^†^*
Estonia	26	34^*	19	23^*	69	63^*	87	93^*
Finland	19	27^*	21	30^*	68	63^*	93	97^*
Greenland^¥	14	16	37	44^*	62	59	64	68
Iceland	29	40^*	23	31^*	72	68^*	87	91^*
Ireland^¥	32	42^†^*	37^†	46^†^*	74	66^†^*	74	79^*
Latvia	19	27^*	19	28^*	67	62^*	87	88
Lithuania^¥	21	26^*	22	27^†^*	67	60^*	84	87^*
Norway^¥	36	47^*	27^†	34^*	75	66^*	85	90^†^*
Scotland^¥	35	42^†^*	33^†	43^*	66^†	56^*	68^†	75^*
Sweden	29	36^*	32	41^*	78	71^*	92	95^*
Wales^¥	31	39^*	29^†	33^†^*	66	53^†^*	69	74^†^*

^¥

≤80% children reported data on age, height, or weight to allow for estimation of body mass index and characterizing overweight status

Significant gender differences using chi-square test with continuity correction (P < 0.05)

^†

Significant differences in eating patterns between those with missing/non-missing BMI using chi-square test with continuity correction (P < 0.05) for countries where the response on age, height and/or weight variables was ≤ 80%.