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			The afterschool experience in Salsa, Sabor y Salud: Evaluation 2007-2008 Huang, Denise, December 2008 (CRESST Report 747). Los Angeles: University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Research on Evaluation, Standards, and Student Testing. A process and outcomes evaluation of Salsa, Sabor y Salud (SSS), a child-centered adaptation of a healthy lifestyles program for Latino families, that examined the effect of program participation on elementary school students' and program instructors' knowledge and healthy behaviors, based on survey, interview, and observational data collected in after school programs implementing SSS and matched control programs in Los Angeles and on case studies of programs in Chicago	Reports & Papers
			The childcare environment and children's physical activity Bower, Julie K., January 2008 American Journal of Preventive Medicine, 34(1) A study of the relationship between child care environment and children's physical activities from direct observations in 20 child care centers over 2 days	Reports & Papers
			Children's cortisol and the quality of teacher-child relationships in child care Lisonbee, Jared A., November/December 2008 Child Development, 79(6), 1818-1832 A study of the correlation between the quality of teacher-child relationships and individual levels of the cortisol stress hormone in a population of 191 preschoolers at 12 child care centers in two Southeastern communities	Reports & Papers
			An instrument to assess the obesogenic environment of child care centers Ward, Dianne S., July/August 2008 American Journal of Health Behavior, 32(4), 380-386 A validity study of an instrument to evaluate nutrition and physical activity environments at 9 child care centers	Reports & Papers
			New results on the effect of mothers' working hours on children's overweight status: Does the quality of childcare matter? Greve, Jane, April, 2008 (Working Paper 05:2008). Copenhagen, Denmark: Nationale forskningscenter for velfaerd (Danish National Centre for Social Research). A study of the association between maternal employment and children's overweight status in Denmark, and examination of the mediating influences of child care quality, maternal overtime, and paternal work hours, based on a secondary analysis of data collected from 4,336 families	Reports & Papers
			Preschool child care participation and obesity at the start of kindergarten Maher, Erin J., August, 2008 Pediatrics, 122(2), 322-330 An examination of the association between type of child care, participation in different types of child care in the year before kindergarten and the likelihood of obesity at the start of kindergarten using a nationally representative sample of 15,691 first-time kindergarteners from the Early Childhood Longitudinal Study-Kindergarten Cohort	Reports & Papers
			Using childcare programs as a portal for changing the eating behaviors of young children Fiene, Richard, 2008 In L. Birch and W. Dietz (Eds.), Eating behaviors of the young child: Prenatal and postnatal influences on healthy eating (pp. 247-261), Elk Grove Village, IL: American Academy of Pediatrics. Highlights of a study of the effects of a mentoring intervention for early childhood educators on the promotion of healthy eating behaviors and body weight for infants and toddlers in south central Pennsylvania, and a discussion of policy implications for the systemic fight against childhood obesity	Reports & Papers

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