Mary Story
Duke University
526 Papers
6.1K Citations
Mary Story is an academic researcher from Duke University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Medicine & Population. The author has an hindex of 135, co-authored 522 publications. Previous affiliations of Mary Story include Durham University & University of Minnesota.
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Papers
•Journal Article
Associations of American Indian children's screen-time behavior with parental television behavior, parental perceptions of children's screen time, and media-related resources in the home.
Daheia J. Barr-Anderson,Jayne A. Fulkerson,Mary Smyth,John H. Himes,Peter J. Hannan,Bonnie Holy Rock,Mary Story +6 more
TL;DR: Changes in parental television watching time, parental influence over children's screen-time behavior, and availability of media-related resources in the home could decrease screen time and may be used as a strategy for reducing overweight and obesity in American Indian children.
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Low awareness of overweight status among parents of preschool-aged children, Minnesota, 2004-2005.
TL;DR: The authors found that most parents of overweight preschoolers classified their child as normal weight, while most normal-weight children classified their children's weight as average or very underweight, and only 16.0% classified their normalweight children as underweight or very overweight.
Alternative high school students: prevalence and correlates of overweight.
TL;DR: The odds of being overweight were significantly associated with self-described health status, social support, family meals, intentions to eat healthy at school, and use of healthy weight management strategies.
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Psychosocial Factors and Health Behaviors Associated with Inadequate Fruit and Vegetable Intake among American-Indian and Alaska-Native Adolescents
TL;DR: It is shown that fruit and vegetable consumption is low among American-Indian and Alaska-Native youths and more attention needs to be placed on developing culturally appropriate interventions to promote healthy eating patterns and addressing factors related to inadequate intake.
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Pediatric obesity: the unique issues in Latino-American male youth.
TL;DR: There is an urgency to develop and implement clinical and community research strategies to prevent and treat obesity within this high-risk gender-ethnic group.
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