How does the health and well-being of young Australian vegetarian and semi-vegetarian women compare with non-vegetarians?

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 10, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 436-442

  Baines, Surinder ^a   Powers, Jennifer ^a   Brown, Wendy J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cohort studies; Females; Health behaviour; Health services; Health status; Vegetarian diet

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; BODY MASS; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEMOGRAPHY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; IRON BLOOD LEVEL; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREMENSTRUAL SYNDROME; PRESCRIPTION; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBAN POPULATION; VEGETARIAN DIET; WELLBEING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; BODY WEIGHT; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DEPRESSION; DIET, VEGETARIAN; EXERCISE; FEMALE; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH STATUS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MARITAL STATUS; MENSTRUAL CYCLE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34247579532     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980007217938     Document Type: Article

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