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Wic Participant Fruit And Vegetable Intake In California, Lindsay Estrada
Wic Participant Fruit And Vegetable Intake In California, Lindsay Estrada
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
Low-income populations in the United States consume less healthful diets than higher-income populations, specifically relating to fruit and vegetable consumption. The supplemental nutrition program Women, Infants, and Children (WIC) is intended to bridge this gap by providing nutrition education and vouchers for nutritious foods. The purpose of this study was to determine if the 2009 WIC food package revisions impacted fruit and green vegetable consumption in 18 to 24-year-old females in California. Using the social ecological model as a guide, a population of WIC (N = 115) and non-WIC (N = 276) participants from the California Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance …
Predictors Of Nutritional Counseling Among Adolescents By Physicians In California, Jean Kigozi
Predictors Of Nutritional Counseling Among Adolescents By Physicians In California, Jean Kigozi
Walden Dissertations and Doctoral Studies
The prevalence of obesity in the United States was stable at 17% from 2011-2014 among approximately 13 million children and adolescents 12-19 years of age, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Nutritional counseling has been recommended, and while most physicians agree that it is necessary, it is not happening consistently. The purpose of this study was to examine the association between dietary intake, physical activity, and body mass index (BMI) characteristics of youth 12-17 years old in California and the receipt of nutritional counseling. Social cognitive theory guided this quantitative cross-sectional analysis of archived data from 814 …