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Maternal Nutrition Knowledge and Children's Diet Quality and Nutrient Intakes

By James Blaylock, Jay Variyam, and Biing-Hwan Lin

Food Assistance and Nutrition Research Report No. (FANRR1) 34 pp, October 1999

ERS research findings suggest that the more a mother knows about health and nutrition the better is the overall quality of her children's diet, for preschoolers more so than older children. We also found that a mother's years of schooling, smoking status, race, and ethnicity influence her children's diet. Our results imply that health and nutrition education may be more effective if targeted toward mothers with young children but directly toward school-age children. We assessed overall diet quality using the Healthy Eating Index, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's instrument for measuring overall diet quality incorporating 10 recommended nutritional guidelines.

Keywords: child nutrition, child health, Healthy Eating Index, nutrition knowledge, household production theory, latent variable model , ERS, USDA

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Updated date: October 1, 1999

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