Food Insecurity: Its Relationship to Dietary Intake and Body Weight among Somali Refugee Women in the United States

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Volumn 45, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 47-53

  Dharod, Jigna M ^a   Croom, Jamar E ^b   Sady, Christine G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA AT GREENSBORO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Food insecurity; Overweight obesity; Somali refugee

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CATERING SERVICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CULTURAL FACTOR; DIET; EGG; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MEAT; OBESITY; REFUGEE; RISK; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOMALIA; STATISTICS; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ACCULTURATION; ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; EGGS; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; FOOD SUPPLY; FRUIT; HUMANS; MEAT; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; REFUGEES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOMALIA; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84872133528     PISSN: 14994046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2012.03.006     Document Type: Article

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