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Dietary Sources of Calcium Among Parents and Their Early Adolescent Children in the United States by Parent Race/Ethnicity and Place of Birth

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Dietary calcium sources may differ by race/ethnicity and dietary acculturation. A cross-sectional, convenience sample including 587 United States (US) Asian, Hispanic and non-Hispanic White parent–child (10–13 years) pairs completed a calcium food frequency questionnaire. Calcium sources were ranked by mean percent contribution to total adjusted calcium intake, and compared by ethnic group and parents’ location of birth. Five foods (fluid milk, cheese, milk on cereal, yogurt, and lattes) represented 49 % of total calcium intake for parents. The same foods (except lattes) represented 55 % of total calcium for early adolescent children. Fluid milk provided the largest mean percentage of intake for all race/ethnic groups among parents and children. Several food sources of calcium were greater for foreign-born versus US-born Asian or Hispanic parents and children. Understanding calcium food sources and changes in dietary patterns that affect calcium intake among parents and children is important to better promote adequate intake.

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This project was funded with money appropriated by Congress through the Hatch Act to Agricultural Experiment Stations of land grant universities for multistate research projects.

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  1. Nutrition, School of Biological and Population Health Sciences, Oregon State University, 200 Milam Hall, Corvallis, OR, 97331, USA

    Mary Cluskey & Siew Sun Wong

  2. Department of Nutrition, Dietetics and Food Science, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA

    Rickelle Richards

  3. Department of Food Science and Human Nutrition, Washington State University, Pullman, WA, USA

    Miriam Ballejos

  4. Department of Food Science and Nutrition, University of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN, USA

    Marla Reicks

  5. Department of Food Science & Human Nutrition, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA

    Garry Auld

  6. Epidemiology Program, University of Hawaii Cancer Center, Honolulu, HI, USA

    Carol Boushey

  7. Center for Consumer Research, Food Science and Technology, University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA

    Christine Bruhn

  8. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ, USA

    Scottie Misner

  9. Department of Nutritional Sciences, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI, USA

    Beth Olson

  10. National Nutrition Institute, Cairo, Egypt

    Sahar Zaghloul

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Cluskey, M., Wong, S.S., Richards, R. et al. Dietary Sources of Calcium Among Parents and Their Early Adolescent Children in the United States by Parent Race/Ethnicity and Place of Birth. J Immigrant Minority Health 17, 432–440 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10903-014-0026-7

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