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Body Mass Index and Dietary Intake among Head Start Children and Caregivers
Journal of the American Dietetic Association
Vol. 111Issue 9p1314–1321Published in issue: September, 2011
- Krishna Acharya
- Michelle Feese
- Frank Franklin
- Edmond K. Kabagambe
Cited in Scopus: 24
The US Head Start program serves low-income preschoolers and their caregivers and provides an opportunity for assessment and intervention on obesity. We sought to determine the prevalence of obesity among children and their caregivers and to identify variables that are associated with child body mass index (BMI) z scores and caregiver BMI.