A total of 178 families were contacted regarding this study. One hundred thirty families agreed to participate, and 129 children provided 3 dietary recalls (95% had 1 weekend day, and 100 %had2weekdays).Ofthesechildren,124alsohadcomplete physical measurements. In this sample, 46.5% of the subjects were girls, and the average age of the children was 9.6 y ( range : 9.0–11.5 y). Most of the families identified their ethnicity as Latino(86.8%),buttheotherfamiliesidentifiedtheirethnicityas PacificIslander(9.1%),white(1.7%),Asian(1.7%),andAfrican American (0.8%). The mean ( SD) BMI of the sample was
20.70 4.17 (range: 13.10–36.81).