Nutritional status of children of Mexican-American migrant families1

The growth status of Mexican American children and youths is reviewed in a historical perspective that begins in the 1920s. The early studies were more concerned with growth status as an indicator of undernutrition and associated growth stunting, while the more recent studies have overnutrition and excess fatness as a primary focus. Evidence from recent studies suggests a relatively large number of short but heavy Mexican American children and youths. The growth status of Mexican American children and youths is then discussed in the context of socioeconomic variation; the relationship between weight for stature or the body mass index and body proportions; skinfolds, body composition, and fat patterning; secular trends; and recent national health surveys including the National Health and Nutrition Examination surveys and the Hispanic Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.

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Growth status of Mexican American children and youths: Historical trends and contemporary issues

Malina

Martorell

Mendoza

1986

Am. J. Phys. Anthropol.

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Nutrition Provided to Mexican-American Preschool Children on the Texas–Mexico Border

Mier¹,

Piziak²,

Kjar³

et al. 2007

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

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Infant feeding practices of migrant farm laborers in northern Colorado

O'Malley

Tate

et al. 1991

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

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Additional health and nutritional problems among migrant farmworker children include below-average height, upper respiratory 5 infections, skin infections, chronic diarrhea, vitamin A deficiency, and baby bottle mouth syndrome (where the upper four central teeth rot from constant contact with a nipple containing a sugarliquid) (Select Conmittee on Hunger, 1986;Schneider, 1986). V The inhumane conditions and plight of migrant infants and children were addressed by Steve Allen (1966) in his book, TIE _Ci r_gu_L1_d_ E ggg _' ILa_b_Le. He recounted Fred Van Dyke's address before the Stockton Council of Churches about a migrant farnworker's parked car ' with three young children in it. The youngest child, an infant, was screaming from pain. Suffering from diarrhea, he had been soiling himelf all day without being cleansed or changed, and the flesh on the lower part of his body was raw. The next oldest was burning with a high fever. The oldest child, a five or six year old, was unconscious and near death. The parents were picking crops in a nearby orchard. Van Dyke said something had to be done. Five years later, a baby left in a car while his parents worked in the same field choked to death on his own vomit. Migrant infants and children are truly a high risk population in term of nutrition and health. The extreme poverty, high mobility,and detrimental living environment make them and their parents a group iumensely in need of supplemental services to provide iumediate and basic needs (Cavenaugh et al., 1977). MigrantThe Migrant Head Start Center is one program that exclusively addresses the needs of migrant infants and children. Eligibility criteria for enrollment in the Summer Migrant Head Start Program

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Nutritional status of children of Mexican-American migrant families1

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Growth status of Mexican American children and youths: Historical trends and contemporary issues

Growth status of Mexican American children and youths: Historical trends and contemporary issues

Nutrition Provided to Mexican-American Preschool Children on the Texas–Mexico Border

Infant feeding practices of migrant farm laborers in northern Colorado

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