Texas GROW! EAT! GO! (Using Family-focused Gardening, Nutrition, and Physical Activities to Prevent Childhood Obesity)

Warren, Judith L.; Evans, Andrea; McIntosh, Alex; McKyer, Lisako; Ory, Marcia G.; Whittlesey, L.A.; Kirk, A.; Robinson, S.F.

doi:10.1016/j.jneb.2012.03.235

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“…For example, the percent of parents in the LGEG only and the Combined groups who made a recipe at home was 26% and 30%, respectively. 59 This may explain why the LGEG intervention was not successful in changing the availability of vegetables at home and, consequently, no changes in children's vegetable consumption.…”

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Impact of a Gardening and Physical Activity Intervention in Title 1 Schools: The TGEG Study

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Warren²,

McIntosh

et al. 2020

Childhood Obesity

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Background: The purpose of the Texas!Grow!Eat!Go! (TGEG) study was to assess individual and combined effects of schoolbased gardening and physical activity (PA) interventions on children's eating and PA behaviors and obesity status. Methods: Using a 2 • 2 design, 28 low-income schools in Texas were randomized to 1 of 4 conditions: (1) School Garden intervention (Learn!Grow!Eat!Go! [LGEG]), (2) PA intervention (Walk Across Texas [WAT!]), (3) both Garden and PA intervention (Combined), or (4) neither Garden nor PA intervention (Control). Participants included 1326 third grade students and parents (42% Hispanic; 78% free/reduced lunch). Student and parent data were collected at the beginning and end of the school year. Two different sets of analyses measuring pre-post changes in outcomes within and across conditions were estimated by factorial ANOVAs using mixed models adjusted for demographics. Results: Main effect analyses indicate that relative to children at schools that did not receive LGEG, children at schools that received LGEG, either individually or in combination with WAT!, showed significant increases in Nutrition knowledge, Vegetable preference, and Vegetable tasted (p < 0.001 in all cases). Within-group analyses show that compared to Comparison, children in the WAT! group significantly increased in the amount of time parents and children were active together (p = 0.038). In addition, children in LGEG and WAT! schools significantly decreased BMI percentile (p = 0.042, p = 0.039, respectively), relative to children in Comparison schools. Conclusions: Both the garden and PA interventions independently produced significant changes related to healthy lifestyle behaviors. However, combining the two interventions did not show greater impact than the single interventions, underscoring the need for more research to determine how to better implement comprehensive interventions at schools.

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Impact of a Gardening and Physical Activity Intervention in Title 1 Schools: The TGEG Study

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Warren²,

McIntosh

et al. 2020

Childhood Obesity

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Extending Cancer Prevention to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

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Consuming a diet that is rich in fruits and vegetables is critical for preventing cancer and cancer-related disparities. Food systems approaches that increase spatial-temporal, economic, and social access to fruits and vegetables may ultimately result in improved consumption patterns among Americans. Engaging the triad of Cooperative Extension Services, public health systems, and community health centers may yield maximal public health benefits from food systems interventions. These entities have a mutual interest in promoting health equity and community and economic vitality that provides common ground to (a) implement solutions through the dissemination of evidence-based programs and (b) share resources to foster grassroots support for sustained change. Working together, these systems have an unprecedented opportunity to build on their common ground to implement, evaluate, and disseminate evidence-based food systems interventions in communities and with populations experiencing disparate risk for cancer and cancer-related diseases.

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Texas GROW! EAT! GO! (Using Family-focused Gardening, Nutrition, and Physical Activities to Prevent Childhood Obesity)

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Impact of a Gardening and Physical Activity Intervention in Title 1 Schools: The TGEG Study

Impact of a Gardening and Physical Activity Intervention in Title 1 Schools: The TGEG Study

Extending Cancer Prevention to Improve Fruit and Vegetable Consumption

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