ERIC Number: EJ953674
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Publication Date: 2012
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Healthy Children, Healthy Families: Parents Making a Difference! A Curriculum Integrating Key Nutrition, Physical Activity, and Parenting Practices to Help Prevent Childhood Obesity
Lent, Megan; Hill, Tisa F.; Dollahite, Jamie S.; Wolfe, Wendy S.; Dickin, Katherine L.
Journal of Nutrition Education and Behavior, v44 n1 p90-92 Jan-Feb 2012
A new dialogue-based curriculum combines nutrition, active play and parenting practices to help parents and caregivers gain skills that promote healthy habits for themselves and their families and to create healthy environments where children live, learn, and play. Graduates report significant improvements in behaviors that promote healthy weights in children. (Contains 1 figure.)
Descriptors: Obesity, Play, Physical Activities, Nutrition, Parenting Styles, Caregivers, Child Health, Child Rearing, Prevention, Dialogs (Language), Curriculum, Health Promotion, Body Weight, Health Behavior, Graduates, Program Descriptions
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Language: English
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