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limited success in explaining dietary change. Food practices are the result of a number of interacting variables.
Interventions do not change behaviors directly, but can be designed to change mediating variables. A

change in strongly related mediating variables (psychosocial, behavioral, environmental, and biologic) can
result in behavioral change. Changes in family food practices, for example, may be a strongly related
mediating variable resulting in change.

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