The relationship between parents' anti-fat attitudes and restrictive feeding

Obesity

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2007, Pages 2095-2102

  Musher Eizenman, Dara R ^a   Holub, Shayla C ^a,b   Hauser, Jessica C ^a   Young, Kathleen M ^a  

^a BOWLING GREEN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Child development; Family behavior; Prejudice

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CHILD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PARENT; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; QUESTIONNAIRE;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PARENTS; QUESTIONNAIRES;

EID: 34548646862     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2007.249     Document Type: Article

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