Diet quality in childhood is prospectively associated with the timing of puberty but not with body composition at puberty onset

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 140, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 95-102

  Cheng, Guo ^a   Gerlach, Steffi ^a   Libuda, Lars ^a   Kranz, Sibylle ^b   Günther, Anke L B ^c   Karaolis Danckert, Nadina ^a   Kroke, Anja ^c   Buyken, Anette E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^b EAST CAROLINA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c FULDA UNIVERSITY OF APPLIED SCIENCES   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY COMPOSITION; BODY FAT; BODY GROWTH; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIETARY INTAKE; FEMALE; GROWTH ACCELERATION; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL ASSESSMENT; NUTRITIONAL HEALTH; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBESITY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; PUBERTY; SCHOOL CHILD;

BODY COMPOSITION; CHILD; DIET; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PUBERTY;

EID: 73649118830     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.109.113365     Document Type: Article

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