Nutritional assessment of charitable meal programmes serving homeless people in Toronto

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 11, Issue 12, 2008, Pages 1296-1305

  Tse, Carmen ^a   Tarasuk, Valerie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Charitable food programmes; Homeless people; Meals; Nutrient requirements

Indexed keywords

ASCORBIC ACID;

ARTICLE; CANADA; COMMUNITY PROGRAM; ENERGY; FOOD GUIDE PYRAMID; FOOD QUALITY; FRUIT; HEALTH PROGRAM; HOMELESSNESS; HUMAN; MILK; MODEL; NUTRIENT CONTENT; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL WELFARE; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; DAIRY PRODUCTS; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD SERVICES; FRUIT; HOMELESS PERSONS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITIONAL REQUIREMENTS; NUTRITIVE VALUE; ONTARIO; VEGETABLES;

EID: 56049119857     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008002577     Document Type: Article

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