Dietary intakes of middle-aged European, Maori and Pacific Islands people living in New Zealand

New Zealand Medical Journal

Volumn 111, Issue 1072, 1998, Pages 310-313

  Metcalf, Patricia A ^a   Scragg, Robert K R ^a   Tukuitonga, Colin F ^a   Dryson, Evan W ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AUCKLAND   (New Zealand)

^b New Zealand Inst Occup Environ M   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORIGINE; ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CAUCASIAN; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COOKING; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; ETHNOLOGY; EUROPE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; NEW ZEALAND; PACIFIC ISLANDS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; COOKERY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET SURVEYS; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ENERGY INTAKE; EUROPE; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEW ZEALAND; OCEANIC ANCESTRY GROUP; PACIFIC ISLANDS; QUESTIONNAIRES; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 0032575459     PISSN: 00288446     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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