Effects of social context on overweight and normal-weight children's food selection

Eating Behaviors

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 190-196

  Salvy, Sarah Jeanne ^a   Kieffer, Elizabeth ^a   Epstein, Leonard H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY AT BUFFALO   (United States)

Author keywords

Children; Food selection; Obesity; Social influence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAST FOOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCE; GAME; HUMAN; LEAN BODY WEIGHT; LOW CALORY DIET; MALE; OBESITY; PEER GROUP; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SCHOOL CHILD; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; SOCIAL INTERACTION;

BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HUMANS; MALE; OVERWEIGHT; PEER GROUP; SOCIAL CONFORMITY; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 40349091855     PISSN: 14710153     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eatbeh.2007.08.001     Document Type: Article

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