Achieving a healthy lifestyle among United States adults: A long way to go

Ethnicity and Disease

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 224-231

  Ford, Earl S ^a   De Proost Ford, Martine A ^a   Will, Julie C ^a   Galuska, Deborah A ^a   Ballew, Carol ^a  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR CHRONIC DISEASE PREVENTION AND HEALTH PROMOTION   (United States)

Author keywords

Body Weight; Exercise; Fruit; Health Surveys; Lifestyle; Smoking; Vegetables

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; CAUCASIAN; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; AGED; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MEXICAN AMERICANS; MIDDLE AGED; SMOKING; UNITED STATES;

EID: 0035288697     PISSN: 1049510X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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