Latina Immigrant Mothers: Negotiating New Food Environments to Preserve Cultural Food Practices and Healthy Child Eating

Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 145-160

  Greder, Kimberly ^a   de Slowing, Flor Romero ^a   Doudna, Kimberly ^a  

^a IOWA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Eating patterns; Food environment; Immigrant; Latina; Rural

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871336948     PISSN: 1077727X     EISSN: 15523934     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/fcsr.12004     Document Type: Article

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