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Is socioeconomic incorporation associated with a healthier diet? Dietary patterns among Mexican-origin children in the United States

With each successive generation in the United States, Mexican-origin families lose their initial dietary advantages. Focusing on children's diets, we ask whether greater socioeconomic status (SES) can help buffer Mexican-origin children in immigrant families from negative dietary acculturation...

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Published in:Social science & medicine (1982) 2015-12, Vol.147, p.20-29
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description With each successive generation in the United States, Mexican-origin families lose their initial dietary advantages. Focusing on children's diets, we ask whether greater socioeconomic status (SES) can help buffer Mexican-origin children in immigrant families from negative dietary acculturation or whether it exacerbates these dietary risks. Pooling data from the 1999 to 2009 waves of the continuous National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey, we test whether the association between generational status and Mexican-origin children's nutrition varies by the family's SES. When predicting children's overall dietary quality using the Healthy Eating Index (2010) and predicting unhealthy dietary patterns, we find stronger evidence of segmented assimilation, whereby greater family average SES is associated with better diets across generations of Mexican-origin children. High-status Mexican-origin parents appear able to buffer their children against generational dietary declines documented in the acculturation literature. •Across generations in the U.S., the diets of Mexican-origin children worsen.•Does higher socioeconomic status (SES) buffer or accelerate this dietary decline?•High SES, third-generation Mexican-origin children retain dietary advantages.•Low SES, third-generation Mexican-origin children have the least nutritious diets.•Findings align with segmented assimilation theory.
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Adolescent
Assimilation
Body Mass Index
Child
Child, Preschool
Children
Children & youth
Cross-Sectional Studies
Diet
Diet - ethnology
Emigrants and Immigrants
Female
Health
Hispanic people
Hispanics
Humans
Immigration
Male
Mexican Americans
Mexican-American
Mexico - ethnology
Nutrition
Nutrition Surveys
Nutritional Status
Parents & parenting
Quality of care
Risk
Social Class
Socioeconomic factors
Socioeconomic status
United States
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