Can nutritional label use influence body weight outcomes?

Kyklos

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 500-525

  Drichoutis, Andreas C ^a   Nayga Jr, Rodolfo M ^b   Lazaridis, Panagiotis ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOANNINA   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ARKANSAS   (United States)

^c AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SET; ESTIMATION METHOD; HETEROGENEITY; NUTRITION;

NEW YORK [NEW YORK (STT)]; NEW YORK [UNITED STATES]; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 70449399246     PISSN: 00235962     EISSN: 14676435     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-6435.2009.00448.x     Document Type: Article

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