Linkage between stress and fruit and vegetable intake among university students: an empirical analysis on Turkish students

Nutrition Research

Volumn 26, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 385-390

  Unusan, Nurhan ^a  

^a SELCUK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fruit and vegetable intake; Stress; University students

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BRIEF SYMPTOM INVENTORY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DEMOGRAPHY; EMPIRICAL RESEARCH; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; FRUIT; HEALTH SURVEY; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MENTAL STRESS; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF REPORT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TURKEY (REPUBLIC); UNIVERSITY STUDENT; VEGETABLE;

EID: 33748746756     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.nutres.2006.06.002     Document Type: Article

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