A School Gardening and Healthy Snack Program Increased Aboriginal First Nations Children's Preferences Toward Vegetables and Fruit

Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior

Volumn 47, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 176-180

  Triador, Lucila ^a   Farmer, Anna ^a   Maximova, Katerina ^a   Willows, Noreen ^a   Kootenay, Jody ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b Alexander First Nation Education   (Canada)

Author keywords

Aboriginal; Food preferences; Gardening; Health education; Intervention studies; North American Indians

Indexed keywords

AMERICAN INDIAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; FAST FOOD; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; VEGETABLE;

CHILD; FEMALE; FRUIT; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; MALE; SNACKS; VEGETABLES;

EID: 84924033660     PISSN: 14994046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jneb.2014.09.002     Document Type: Article

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