The effect of the holiday season on body weight and composition in college students

Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Hull, Holly R ^a,b   Hesterand, Casey N ^b   Fields, David A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OKLAHOMA HEALTH SCIENCES CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FAT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DUAL ENERGY X RAY ABSORPTIOMETRY; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEISURE; MALE; MEDICAL ASSESSMENT; NORMAL HUMAN; OBSERVATION; SEASON; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; TRUNK;

EID: 33847215105     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17437075     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1743-7075-3-44     Document Type: Article

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