title: Mothers' efforts to promote healthy nutrition and physical activity for their preschool children.
abstract: Children's lifestyles profoundly impact their health. This action research study explores how mothers manage to provide good nutrition and physical activity opportunities for their preschool children despite the challenges of daily living. Aware of these daily challenges, mothers are the best source of information about the usefulness of different strategies in providing healthy lifestyles for their children. In so doing, they display an ecological viewpoint that recognizes health as an individual and collective responsibility.
authors.affiliation: School of Health and Social Care, Bournemouth University, Dorset, UK.
authors.forename: Ann L
authors.initials: AL
authors.lastname: Bevan
authors.forename: Sandra M
authors.initials: SM
authors.lastname: Reilly
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002664:Child Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D015438:Health Behavior; D006801:Humans; D008019:Life Style; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D009035:Mothers / Q000523:psychology*; D009043:Motor Activity