Parents' food choices: Obesity among minority parents and children

Journal of Community Health Nursing

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-11

  Sealy, Yvette M ^a  

^a FORDHAM UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL OBESITY; ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD PARENT RELATION; COOKING; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; HISPANIC; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MINORITY GROUP; SOCIOECONOMICS; TIME MANAGEMENT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; CHILD; COOKERY; CULTURE; FEMALE; FOCUS GROUPS; FOOD PREFERENCES; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; MALE; MINORITY GROUPS; NEW YORK CITY; OBESITY, ABDOMINAL; PARENT-CHILD RELATIONS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TIME MANAGEMENT;

EID: 75949090755     PISSN: 07370016     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07370010903466072     Document Type: Article

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