Nutrition knowledge is associated with greater weight loss in obese and overweight low-income mothers

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Volumn 106, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 65-75

  Klohe Lehman, Deborah M ^a   Freeland Graves, Jeanne ^b   Anderson, Edward R ^b   McDowell, Todd ^c   Clarke, Kristine K ^d   Hanss Nuss, Henry ^b   Cai, Guowen ^e   Puri, Divya ^f   Milani, Tracey J ^g  

^a Texas Department of Agriculture   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c Galindo Elementary   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF UTAH SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^e SOUTHWEST FOUNDATION FOR BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH   (United States)

^f New York Public School ^*

^g MedLogix Communications   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; BODY MASS; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION; EDUCATION; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MOTHER; NEWBORN; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; POVERTY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHILD NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DIET RECORDS; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; MOTHERS; NUTRITION PHYSIOLOGY; OBESITY; POVERTY; QUESTIONNAIRES; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC; WEIGHT LOSS;

EID: 29844449547     PISSN: 00028223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jada.2005.09.047     Document Type: Article

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