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'Boden Food Plate': Novel Interactive Web-based Method for the Assessment of Dietary Intake
Published on: September 18, 2018
Rural versus urban Texas WIC participants' fruit and vegetable consumption
Reynolette Ettienne-Gittens1, E Lisako J McKyer, Mary Odum
1Department of Cancer Epidemiology, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA. rgittens@cc.hawaii.edu
Objective:
To explore fruit and vegetable (F&V) consumption among urban and rural Black Texas WIC participants.
Methods:
The study included 673 WIC mothers and their 351 children from the TEXFAN study. T-tests, Pearson chi-squared test, and regressions were performed.
Results:
Among children, differences were found for fruit consumption but not vegetable. Urban children were offered and consumed a greater variety of F&V. Mothers' F&V intake was related to age, pregnancy status, and breastfeeding status.
Conclusions:
This study provides insight into a subsection of the WIC population. Further research should be done regarding increasing the amount and variety of F&V consumed by WIC women and children.
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