The relationship between television food advertisements recalled and actual foods consumed by children

Journal of Human Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 11, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 511-517

  Hitchings, E ^a   Moynihan, P J ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Advertising; Food requests; Schoolchildren; Television

Indexed keywords

ADVERTIZING; ARTICLE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FOOD PACKAGING; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION; INTERVIEW; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; PARENT; RECALL; SCHOOL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL CLASS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEVISION; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0032428636     PISSN: 09523871     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-277X.1998.00133.x     Document Type: Article

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