Nativity and duration of time in the United States: differences in fruit and vegetable intake among low-income postpartum women.
Limited research has examined the association of diet with immigrant status, adjusting for multiple socio-demographic and contextual influences. Among 662 WIC-eligible postpartum women, those who were foreign-born and had lived in the United States for 4 or fewer years consumed 2.5 more fruit and vegetable servings daily than native-born women; this difference diminished with longer US residence. White women consumed 1 serving less than Latinas, and those speaking both English and Spanish at home consumed 1.4 servings more than English-only speakers after adjusting for other covariates.
Dubowitz
Tamara
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Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass, USA. dubowitz@rand.org
Smith-Warner
Stephanie A
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Acevedo-Garcia
Dolores
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Subramanian
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Peterson
Karen E
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D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001900:Boston; D004032:Diet / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005006:Ethnicity; D005260:Female; D005638:Fruit; D006801:Humans; D049590:Postpartum Period; D011203:Poverty; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013997:Time Factors; D014675:Vegetables