The physiological and psychological effects of combat ration feeding during a 12-day training exercise in the tropics

Military Medicine

Volumn 168, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 63-70

  Booth, Christine K ^a   Coad, Ross A ^a   Forbes Ewan, Christopher H ^a   Thomson, Gary F ^a   Niro, Philip J ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FOLIC ACID; IRON;

ADULT; ARMY; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEHYDRATION; FATIGUE; FEEDING; FITNESS; FLUID INTAKE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; IMMUNE STATUS; NORMAL HUMAN; PHYSIOLOGY; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PSYCHOLOGY; SLEEP; TRAINING; TROPICS; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

EID: 0037230003     PISSN: 00264075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/milmed/168.1.63     Document Type: Article

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