Effects of breakfast on classroom behaviour in rural Jamaican schoolchildren

Food and Nutrition Bulletin

Volumn 17, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 248-257

  Chang, Susan M ^a   Walker, Susan P ^a   Himes, John ^b   Grantham McGregor, Sally M ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST INDIES   (Jamaica)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOURAL CHANGE; CHILD NUTRITION; EDUCATION; NUTRITIONAL IMPACT;

JAMAICA;

EID: 0030381191     PISSN: 03795721     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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