Motives underlying healthy eating: Using the food choice questionnaire to explain variation in dietary intake

Journal of Biosocial Science

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 165-179

  Pollard, Tessa M ^a,c   Steptoe, Andrew ^a   Wardle, Jane ^b  

^a ST GEORGE'S UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY WEIGHT; DECISION MAKING; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHICS; FEMALE; FOOD; HUMAN; MALE; MEAT; NORMAL HUMAN; QUESTIONNAIRE; SEX DIFFERENCE; STUDENT; VEGETARIAN DIET;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HUMANS; MALE; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0000796514     PISSN: 00219320     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0021932098001655     Document Type: Article

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