Community-based nutrition interventions: reaching adolescents from low-income communities
Hinkle, A.J.
Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 817: 83-93
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0077-8923 PMID: 9239179 DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.1997.tb48197.xDocument Number: 571404
The evolution of the California Adolescent Nutrition and Fitness (CANFit) Program, whose mission is to improve the nutritional status and physical fitness of low-income African-American, Latino, Asian and American Indian youths, 0-14 years old, is described.
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