Summer and Follow-Up Interventions to Affect Adiposity with Mothers and Daughters
A summer intervention reduced body fat in Latina girls but results were not long-lasting.
Overweight Latina girls (mean age 11 years old) participated in the BOUNCE (Behavior Opportunities Uniting Nutrition Counseling and Exercise) four-week summer intervention.
Girls attended exercise, sports, and dance sessions; they received behavioral counseling, two healthy snacks, and a healthy lunch each day. Their mothers participated in two-hour weekly sessions, receiving nutrition education and strategies to support their daughters at home. Both mothers and daughters participated in 12 weekly fall follow-up sessions.
The girls had a 3 percent reduction in body fat with the summer intervention but those results were not sustained in the fall.
A Research Network to Prevent Obesity Among Latino Children
- 1. An Introduction to Salud America!
- 2. Salud America! A National Research Network to Build the Field and Evidence to Prevent Latino Childhood Obesity
- 3. Salud Tiene Sabor
- 4. Growing Healthy Kids
- 5. Afterschool Program Participation, Youth Physical Fitness, and Overweight
- 6. Bridging Research and Policy to Address Childhood Obesity Among Border Hispanics
- 7. Combining Photovoice and Focus Groups
- 8. Latina Voices in Childhood Obesity
- 9. Latino Church Leaders' Perspectives on Childhood Obesity Prevention
- 10. Video Game-Based Exercise, Latino Children's Physical Health, and Academic Achievement
- 11. Latino Families, Primary Care, and Childhood Obesity
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- 13. Food Purchasing Selection Among Low-Income, Spanish-Speaking Latinos
- 14. Obesity Among Latino Children Within a Migrant Farmworker Community
- 15. Exploring Potential Research Contributions to Policy
- 16. Seeking Environmental and Policy Solutions to Address Latino Childhood Obesity
- 17. Building Strategies and Leadership for Change
- 18. San Antonio as a Face of the Future