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Big Boys and Little Girls: Gender, Acculturation, and Weight among Young Children of Immigrants

Previous research fails to find a consistent association between obesity and acculturation for children. We theorize that social isolation shelters children of immigrants from the U.S. “obesiogenic” environment, but this protective effect is offset by immigrant parents’ limited capacity to identify...

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Main Authors: van Hook, Jennifer, Baker, Elizabeth
Formato: Artigo
Idioma:Inglês
Publicado: 2010
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Acceso en liña:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3245318/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20617759
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