Sociodemographic and personal characteristics of adolescents engaged in weight loss and weight/muscle gain behaviors: Who is doing what?

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 28, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 40-50

  Neumark Sztainer, Dianne ^a,b   Story, Mary ^a,b   Falkner, Nicole H ^a   Beuhring, Trish ^b   Resnick, Michael D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

Adolescents; Diet; Eating disorders; Exercise; Health; Steroids; Weight control

Indexed keywords

DIURETIC AGENT; LAXATIVE; STEROID;

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR; BODY MASS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; EATING DISORDER; EXERCISE; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HUMAN; MUSCLE DEVELOPMENT; PERSONALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; VOMITING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0032780737     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/pmed.1998.0373     Document Type: Article

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