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RESEARCH AND PRACTICE |
At the time this study was conducted, Tamara Dubowitz was with the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, Mass. Stephanie A. Smith-Warner is with the Nutrition Department, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. Dolores Acevedo-Garcia and S.V. Subramanian are with the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston. Karen E. Peterson is with the Department of Nutrition and the Department of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston.
Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Tamara Dubowitz, RAND Corporation, 4570 Fifth Avenue, Suite 600, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-2665 (e-mail: dubowitz{at}rand.org).
Limited research has examined the association of diet with immigrant status, adjusting for multiple socio-demographic and contextual influences. Among 662 WIC-eligible postpartum women, those who were foreign-born and had lived in the United States for 4 or fewer years consumed 2.5 more fruit and vegetable servings daily than native-born women; this difference diminished with longer US residence. White women consumed 1 serving less than Latinas, and those speaking both English and Spanish at home consumed 1.4 servings more than English-only speakers after adjusting for other covariates.
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