LA Sprouts: A Gardening, Nutrition, and Cooking Intervention for Latino Youth Improves Diet and Reduces Obesity

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Volumn 111, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1224-1230

  Davis, Jaimie N ^a   Ventura, Emily E ^a   Cook, Lauren T ^a   Gyllenhammer, Lauren E ^a   Gatto, Nicole M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURE; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; COOKING; DIET; DIET THERAPY; EDUCATION; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STANDARD; UNITED STATES; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

AGRICULTURE; BODY COMPOSITION; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION SCIENCES; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; COOKING; DIET; FEMALE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HISPANIC AMERICANS; HUMANS; HYPERTENSION; LOS ANGELES; MALE; OBESITY; PILOT PROJECTS; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 79960813799     PISSN: 00028223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jada.2011.05.009     Document Type: Article

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