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| Sara E BenjaminSummaryAffiliation: Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Country: USA Publications
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An intervention to promote healthy weight: Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) theory and designAlice S Ammerman
Department of Nutrition, Schools of Public Health and Medicine, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, USA
Prev Chronic Dis 4:A67. 2007..The NAP SACC program shows promise as a useful approach to promoting healthy weight behaviors in child care settings...
Nutrition and physical activity self-assessment for child care (NAP SACC): results from a pilot interventionSara E Benjamin
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Nutr Educ Behav 39:142-9. 2007..To determine the feasibility, acceptability, and reported impact of a nutrition and physical activity environmental intervention in child care...- Preparing Child Care Health Consultants to address childhood overweight: a randomized controlled trial comparing web to in-person trainingSara E Benjamin
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
Matern Child Health J 12:662-9. 2008..The purpose of this study was to determine if web-based training is as effective as in-person training... - Early child care and adiposity at ages 1 and 3 yearsSara E Benjamin
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 124:555-62. 2009..The majority of infants in the United States are in nonparental child care, yet little is known about the effect of child care on development of obesity... - State and regional variation in regulations related to feeding infants in child careSara E Benjamin
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts 02215, USA
Pediatrics 124:e104-11. 2009..The purpose of this study was to compare state and regional variation in infant feeding regulations for child care facilities and to compare these regulations to national standards... - Obesity prevention in child care: a review of U.S. state regulationsSara E Benjamin
Obesity Prevention Program, Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Avenue, 6th Floor, Boston, MA 02215, USA
BMC Public Health 8:188. 2008..To describe and contrast individual state nutrition and physical activity regulations related to childhood obesity for child care centers and family child care homes in the United States... - Menus in child care: a comparison of state regulations with national standardsSara E Benjamin
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School, Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 109:109-15. 2009..States have the opportunity to improve regulations regarding menus to ensure that child-care providers develop accurate, specific, and healthful menus... 
Improving nutrition and physical activity in child care: what parents recommendSara E Benjamin
Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, Harvard Medical School and Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, 133 Brookline Ave, 6th Fl, Boston, MA 02215, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 108:1907-11. 2008..This information may be used to create or modify interventions or policies and to help motivate parents to become advocates for change in child care...- A review of state regulations to promote physical activity and safety on playgrounds in child care centers and family child care homesAngie L I Cradock
Dept of Society, Human Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA, USA
J Phys Act Health 7:S108-19. 2010..As interventions increasingly emphasize early child care settings, it is necessary to understand the state regulatory context that provides guidelines for outdoor physical activity and safety and sets standards for child care environments... - Nutrition and physical activity in child care: results from an environmental interventionDianne S Ward
Department of Nutrition, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Am J Prev Med 35:352-6. 2008..Few environmental interventions exist, and none target both diet and physical activity. The Nutrition and Physical Activity Self-Assessment for Child Care (NAP SACC) intervention was developed to fill this research and practice gap... - Dietary intakes in North Carolina child-care centers: are children meeting current recommendations?Sarah C Ball
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 7426, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 108:718-21. 2008.... - Best-practice guidelines for physical activity at child careChristina McWilliams
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Pediatrics 124:1650-9. 2009..Establishing comprehensive guidelines for physical activity at child care could result in higher activity levels and healthier children, but more research is needed... - The childcare environment and children's physical activityJulie K Bower
Department of Nutrition, Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599, USA
Am J Prev Med 34:23-9. 2008..The purpose of this study was to examine the relationships between the childcare environment and physical activity behavior of preschool children... - Development and reliability of an observation method to assess food intake of young children in child careSarah C Ball
Center for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 27599 7461, USA
J Am Diet Assoc 107:656-61. 2007....