A pilot study of a pictorial bilingual nutrition education game to improve the consumption of healthful foods in a head start population

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1319-1325

  Piziak, Veronica ^a  

^a TEXAS A AND M HEALTH SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Nutritional intervention; Preschool children

Indexed keywords

CHILD HEALTH; DISEASE PREVALENCE; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEALTH EDUCATION; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENT; PRIMARY EDUCATION;

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILDHOOD DISEASE; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COURSE EVALUATION; DIETARY INTAKE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; EATING HABIT; ETHNIC GROUP; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; GAME; HEALTH FOOD; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; NUTRITION EDUCATION; OBESITY; PILOT STUDY; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRESCHOOL CHILD; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

TEXAS; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84860231418     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph9041319     Document Type: Article

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