title: Fighting cancer with fitness: dietary outcomes of a randomized, controlled lifestyle change intervention in healthy African-American women.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  This study tested the efficacy of an 8-week, culturally targeted community-based nutrition and physical activity promotion intervention, Fight Cancer with Fitness! (FCF).
  
  
  METHODS
  A randomized, controlled trial was conducted in a black-owned commercial gym in a sample of 366 predominantly overweight or obese, healthy African-American women.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Dietary quality as indexed by fruit and vegetable intake improved significantly in the intervention group compared to the control group at 12-month follow-up, and proportion of calories consumed as fat decreased in both groups.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  This individually targeted cancer prevention intervention produced beneficial effects on dietary quality that were sustained for at least 12 months.
authors.affiliation: Department of Health Services, UCLA School of Public Health, CA 90095, USA.
authors.forename: William J
authors.initials: WJ
authors.lastname: McCarthy
authors.forename: Antronette K
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Yancey
authors.forename: Gail G
authors.initials: GG
authors.lastname: Harrison
authors.forename: Joanne
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Leslie
authors.forename: Judith M
authors.initials: JM
authors.lastname: Siegel
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001741:Black or African American / Q000193:education* / Q000523:psychology; D000368:Aged; D018752:Diet, Fat-Restricted; D015444:Exercise / Q000502:physiology*; D005080:Exercise Test; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006293:Health Promotion / Q000379:methods*; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D009369:Neoplasms / Q000208:ethnology* / Q000517:prevention & control*; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009765:Obesity / Q000150:complications / Q000208:ethnology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D010809:Physical Fitness / Q000502:physiology*; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D016387:Women's Health