Addressing Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity Among Latino Youth
Posted by on January 16, 2012
Addressing Nutrition, Overweight and Obesity Among Latino Youth
This report from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation examines the environmental, socio-economic, and cultural factors that affect nutrition and overweight and obesity rates among Latino youth, including limited access to healthy foods, high food insecurity rates, and traditional infant and toddler feeding.
http://www.rwjf.org/files/research/73674.saludamerica.nutrition.pdf
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