Social factors and television use during meals and snacks is associated with higher BMI among pre-school children

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1267-1279

  Dubois, Lise ^a   Farmer, Anna ^a   Girard, Manon ^a   Peterson, Kelly ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Nutrition; Obesity; Pre school children; Social factors; Television viewing

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; BODY MASS; BODY WEIGHT; CANADA; COHORT ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; FAST FOOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH PRACTITIONER; HUMAN; MALE; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SOCIAL ASPECT; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; TELEVISION VIEWING;

BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGY PHENOMENA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COHORT STUDIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; QUEBEC; SOCIAL CLASS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TELEVISION; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 56049096750     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008002887     Document Type: Article

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