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- Title
Overweight and Obesity Among Hispanic/Latino American Women.
- Authors
Wei-Chen Tung; Jiani Xie McDonough
- Abstract
The article focuses on obesity among Hispanic or Latino American women as a major concern. Topics discussed include overweight and obesity as a global problem that have affected both developed and developing countries, cultural expectations of the ideal body size that vary among racial and ethnic groups and muscle-strengthening activity that are put forward for Hispanic or Latino adults.
- Subjects
UNITED States; HISPANIC Americans; BEHAVIOR modification; BODY image; CULTURE; HEALTH behavior; OBESITY; BODY mass index; HEALTH literacy
- Publication
Home Health Care Management & Practice, 2015, Vol 27, Issue 3, p162
- ISSN
1084-8223
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1177/1084822314563075