Watch Me Grow: A garden-based pilot intervention to increase vegetable and fruit intake in preschoolers

BMC Public Health

Volumn 13, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Namenek Brouwer, Rebecca J ^a   Benjamin Neelon, Sara E ^a,b  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DAY CARE; FEMALE; FRUIT; GARDENING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; PRESCHOOL CHILD; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; REPRODUCIBILITY; UNITED STATES; VEGETABLE;

ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CHILD; CHILD DAY CARE CENTERS; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; FRUIT; GARDENING; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; NORTH CAROLINA; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RESEARCH DESIGN; VEGETABLES;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84876183227     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712458     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2458-13-363     Document Type: Article

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