[PHNUTR-L] Prevent Childhood Obesity in Asian Immigrant Populations

[jikeda]

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>Reducing Risk of Childhood Overweight Among Immigrant Families from Asia

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The risk of obesity among Asian-American children increases the longer they 
are in the United States. Agencies and health organizations serving this 
population have expressed the need for educational materials for parents 
focused on helping children achieve healthy weights. In collaboration with 
county staff, the University of California Berkeley Cooperative Extension 
conducted a needs assessment to identify the needs and interests of 
non-English speaking food stamp recipients about childhood overweight.

The results of the needs assessment were used to design a series of 
culturally sensitive and relevant educational materials that can help 
immigrant parents understand how they can adapt to a new environment and 
food supply in a way that will foster the health and welfare of their 
children. The educational materials were pilot-tested with small groups of 
parents for cognitive knowledge, change in attitudes about overweight in 
children, and intentions to change family health behaviors.

The development of these materials was funded by the Food Stamp Nutrition 
Education Program of USDA.

Asian language pamphlets
Materials are currently available in Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Hmong, 
and English. We anticipate developing materials in Khmer and Lao.

Download pamphlets in Korean, Vietnamese, Chinese, Hmong and English. The 
English version is a translation of the Asian language versions.(Both low 
resolution and high resolution versions are available.)



><http://nature.berkeley.edu/cwh/activities/asian_lang_publications.shtml>http://nature.berkeley.edu/cwh/activities/asian_lang_publications.shtml 

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A limited supply of single sets of materials are available at no 
charge.  In order to obtain a single set of the material, please fill in 
the form below and e-mail it to Kim Nguyen, MS.  Questions regarding these 
materials may be sent to Kim,  who was the lead nutritionists for this 
project. Her e-mail is

Kimphuc at nature.berkeley.edu


_____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

I would like a single set of the pamphlets designed to reduce the risk of 
childhood obesity for the following population(s)

         ______Korean

         ______Vietnames

         ______Chinese

         ______Hmong

         ______English translation

Name_______________________________________

Title_________________________________________

Street________________________________________

City & State___________________________________

ZIP___________________________________________

E-mail this form to     Kimphuc at nature.berkeley.edu





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Joanne P. Ikeda, MA,RD
Cooperative Extension Nutrition Education Specialist & Lecturer
223 Morgan Hall
Nutritional Sciences Department
University of California
Berkeley, CA 94720-3104
phone (510)642-2790
FAX (510)642-4160
email: jikeda at berkeley.edu
^^^Please note this is a new email address.


See website of the Center for Weight and Health:  http://cnr.berkeley.edu/cwh