Differences between older and younger Poles in functional food consumption, awareness of metabolic syndrome risk and perceived barriers to health improvement

Food Policy

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 311-318

  Wadołowska, Lidia ^a   Danowska Oziewicz, Marzena ^a   Stewart Knox, Barbara ^b   Vaz de Almeida, Maria Daniel ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARMIA AND MAZURY IN OLSZTYN   (Poland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PORTO   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Functional food; Health improvement; Health perceptions; Metabolic syndrome; The elderly

Indexed keywords

ELDERLY POPULATION; FOOD CONSUMPTION; HEALTH RISK; LIFESTYLE; METABOLISM; YOUNG POPULATION;

CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; POLAND;

EID: 67349195725     PISSN: 03069192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.foodpol.2009.02.006     Document Type: Article

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