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    Barriers to Implementing a Healthy Habits Curriculum in Early Childhood Education: Perspectives from Childcare Providers and Teachers

    With increasing rates of childhood obesity in the United States, it is important to develop effective curricula that helps children learn and practice healthy habits. Given the large percentage of children who...

    Elizabeth Villegas, Carolyn Sutter, Brenda Koester in Early Childhood Education Journal (2021)

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    Environmental Factors Influencing Physical Activity Among Latino Families: A Cross-country Comparison

    This study seeks to compare and contrast barriers to engage in physical activity (PA) among Latino parents in the USA and Mexico given different cultural and environmental contents.

    Elizabeth Villegas, Kimberly Galvez-Ortega in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Dispar… (2020)

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    Correction to: The Effects of Hispanic Immigrant Mother’s Resiliency on Children’s Dietary Adjustment

    The original version of this article unfortunately contained errors in Affiliation 3, Acknowledgement, Table 1 and in the text under Methods section. Also, a Co-corresponding author has to be included in the a...

    Elizabeth Villegas, Angela Wiley in Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2019)

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    The Effects of Hispanic Immigrant Mother’s Resiliency on Children’s Dietary Adjustment

    This study explored the adjustment phase of the resiliency model of family adjustment and adaptation, particularly how stress and food insecurity interact with protective mechanisms to influence children’s die...

    Elizabeth Villegas, Angela Wiley in Journal of Immigrant and Minority Health (2019)

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    Experiencing and Learning About Emotions: A Longitudinal Analysis of Youth Program Participants

    Organized youth programs provide a context where adolescents experience strong emotions and may develop new ways of thinking about and dealing with emotions. The current study examined youth’s reports of posit...

    Elizabeth Villegas, Marcela Raffaelli in Journal of Youth and Adolescence (2018)

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    Facultative cheater mutants reveal the genetic complexity of cooperation in social amoebae

    The evolution of cooperation is central to the transition by organisms from unicellular to multicellular states. Mutant cells that 'cheat' by benefiting from the cooperation of others but offering nothing in r...

    Lorenzo A. Santorelli, Christopher R. L. Thompson, Elizabeth Villegas in Nature (2008)