Level of adherence to the Mediterranean diet among children from Cyprus: The CYKIDS study

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 991-1000

  Lazarou, Chrystalleni ^a,b   Panagiotakos, Demosthenes B ^a   Matalas, Antonia Leda ^a  

^a HAROKOPIO UNIVERSITY   (Greece)

^b NONE   (Cyprus)

Author keywords

Adherence; Cyprus; Diet quality; Mediterranean diet; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BREAD; CHILD; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; CYPRUS; EATING HABIT; EFFECT SIZE; FISH; FOOD FREQUENCY QUESTIONNAIRE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GLYCEMIC INDEX; HEALTH PROGRAM; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; LEAFY VEGETABLE; LEGUME; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NUT; NUTRITION EDUCATION; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; OLIVE; PRIMARY SCHOOL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RANDOM SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SEA FOOD; CHILD NUTRITION; CLINICAL TRIAL; DEMOGRAPHY; DIET; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; GREECE; HEALTH SURVEY; MALE; MULTICENTER STUDY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRE; RISK; RURAL POPULATION; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN POPULATION;

OLEACEAE;

CHILD; CHILD NUTRITIONAL PHYSIOLOGY PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIET; DIET SURVEYS; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; GREECE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; NUTRITION ASSESSMENT; OBESITY; ODDS RATIO; OVERWEIGHT; POPULATION SURVEILLANCE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; QUESTIONNAIRES; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS; RURAL POPULATION; URBAN POPULATION;

EID: 67651049699     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980008003431     Document Type: Article

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