An environmental intervention to promote lower-fat food choices in secondary schools: Outcomes of the TACOS study

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 94, Issue 9, 2004, Pages 1507-1512

  French, Simone A ^a   Story, Mary ^a   Fulkerson, Jayne A ^a   Hannan, Peter ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; FAT INTAKE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LOW FAT DIET; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PSYCHOSOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; RANDOMIZATION; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL;

EID: 3943064369     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.94.9.1507     Document Type: Article

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