Growing Up With Good Nutrition: A Curriculum For Promoting ...

Latino preschool children are more likely to be overweight (11%) than their non-Hispanic Black (8%) and White (10%) counterparts. As the largest racial and ethnic minority population in the United States, Latinos are also the youngest; over 34% of the Latino population was under the age of 18 in 2004 (NCLR, National Council of la Raza, 2006). ................
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