Overweight children and adolescents referred for weight management: Are they meeting lifestyle behaviour recommendations?

Applied Physiology, Nutrition and Metabolism

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 936-945

  Ball, Geoff D C ^a,b   Lenk, Julie M ^a   Barbarich, Bobbi N ^b   Plotnikoff, Ronald C ^a   Fishburne, Graham J ^a   Mackenzie, Kelly A ^b   Willows, Noreen D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b STOLLERY CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

Child; Nutrition; Obesity; Physical activity; Recommendations; Youth

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DIET; DIET THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITION; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SLEEP; TELEVISION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; BODY WEIGHT; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGICAL PHENOMENA; OBESITY; SLEEP; TELEVISION; WAIST CIRCUMFERENCE;

EID: 53649100865     PISSN: 17155312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/H08-088     Document Type: Article

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