Long-Haul Truck Drivers Want Healthful Meal Options at Truck-Stop Restaurants

Journal of the American Dietetic Association

Volumn 107, Issue 12, 2007, Pages 2125-2129

  Whitfield Jacobson, Pamela J ^a   Prawitz, Aimee D ^a   Lukaszuk, Judith M ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS; CAR DRIVING; CATERING SERVICE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PHYSIOLOGY; PILOT STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; TRAFFIC AND TRANSPORT; UNITED STATES;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY MASS INDEX; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MIDWESTERN UNITED STATES; OBESITY; OCCUPATIONAL HEALTH; PILOT PROJECTS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESTAURANTS; TRANSPORTATION;

EID: 36448997406     PISSN: 00028223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jada.2007.09.003     Document Type: Article

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