scholarly journals Obesity Prevention in Preschool Native-American Children: A Pilot Study Using Home Visiting

2003 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 606-611 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jean Harvey-Berino ◽  
Janine Rourke
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Obesity Prevention ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
American Children

scholarly journals Effect of a Home-Visiting Intervention to Reduce Early Childhood Obesity Among Native American Children

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Summer Rosenstock ◽  
Allison Ingalls ◽  
Reese Foy Cuddy ◽  
Nicole Neault ◽  
Shea Littlepage ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Early Childhood ◽  
Native American ◽  
Childhood Obesity ◽  
Home Visiting ◽  
Early Childhood Obesity ◽  
American Children

A cross-cultural comparison of dietary intakes and physical activity between American and Czech school-aged children

2009 ◽  
Vol 12 (7) ◽  
pp. 986-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lenka Humenikova Shriver ◽  
Gail Gates
Keyword(s):  
Physical Activity ◽  
Czech Republic ◽  
Public Schools ◽  
Pilot Study ◽  
Fast Food ◽  
Dietary Intakes ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Czech Republic ◽  
The Usa ◽  
American Children

AbstractObjectiveThe prevalence of child overweight in the Czech Republic is substantially lower than that in the USA. The objective of the present pilot study was to explore dietary intakes, frequency of dining in fast-food establishments, and the amount and intensity of physical activity between a sample of American and Czech children.DesignA cross-sectional correlational pilot study.SettingFour public schools in the USA and four public schools in the Czech Republic.SubjectsNinety-five Czech and forty-four American 4–6th graders from urban public schools participated in the study. Dietary intake and number of fast-food visits were evaluated using two multiple-pass 24 h recalls. Physical activity was measured using the modified Self-Administered Physical Activity Checklist.ResultsAmerican children (mean age 10·8 (se 0·2) years) consumed more energy and fat, less fruits and vegetables, more soft drinks, and visited fast-food establishments more often than Czech children (mean age 11·0 (se 0·1) years). Although no differences were found in vigorous activity by nationality, Czech children spent significantly more time in moderate physical activities than American children.ConclusionsDespite the influx of some negative Western dietary trends into the country, Czech children had a healthier diet and were more physically active than American children. Further research is warranted to determine whether the same differences in dietary intakes, physical activity and fast-food visits exist between nationally representative samples of American and Czech children.

Serving Native American Children and Families

1996 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 373-384 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carol Robinson-Zañartu
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Learning Styles ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
World View ◽  
Belief Systems ◽  
Reference Points ◽  
American People ◽  
Language Groups ◽  
Traditional Language ◽  
American Children

As a group, Native American people are perhaps the least understood and most underserved populations in schools. Native American is a collective term, representing a large variety of cultures, language groups, customs, traditions, levels of acculturation, and levels of traditional language use. In the context of this variation, I raise and discuss a number of common patterns in their traditions and histories: world view and belief systems, acculturation stress, school-home discontinuity, learning styles, and communication patterns, which are useful reference points from which to develop more culturally compatible evaluation approaches. The ecosystems and dynamic/mediational approaches are suggested as promising.

The Politics of Cerebral Asymmetry and Racial Difference

2018 ◽  
pp. 79-108
Author(s):  
Michael E. Staub
Keyword(s):  
Native American ◽  
Racial Differences ◽  
Alternative Assessment ◽  
Right Hemisphere ◽  
Substantial Part ◽  
Cerebral Asymmetry ◽  
Minority Children ◽  
American Children ◽  
Social Scientific ◽  
The Right

Split-brain theorizing became the lingua franca of the 1970s and 1980s, with the left hemisphere considered the seat of rationality and language while the right hemisphere housed intuition and creativity. Expert and popular writing on cerebral asymmetry came to be directed to society’s privileged, who were encouraged to expand their right-brain potential with yoga, transcendental meditation, and biofeedback. At the same time, a substantial part of debates among neuropsychologists and related medical, social-scientific, and educational professionals revolved around the implications of such a revaluing of right-hemispheric skills specifically for African American, Latino, and Native American children. A remarkable array of experts began to affirm the existence of racial differences in intelligence while taking up a critique that “right-brained” (and often poor and minority) children were trapped in “left-brained” schools. Declaring IQ to be an inaccurate measure, psychologist Alan S. Kaufman in 1979 developed an influential alternative assessment scale specifically to expand what counted as intelligence and to include a range of creative, nonverbal, spatial, and emotional capacities—only to find that gaps in test scores between white and nonwhite children narrowed accordingly.

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