Five-year-old girls' ideas about dieting are predicted by their mothers' dieting

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Volumn 100, Issue 10, 2000, Pages 1157-1163

  Abramovitz, Beth A ^a   Birch, Leann L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHER; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADULT; AGED; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MOTHERS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 0034296765     PISSN: 00028223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0002-8223(00)00339-4     Document Type: Article

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