The mediterranean diet as a nutrition education, health promotion and disease prevention tool

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 12, Issue 9 SPEC. ISSUE 9A, 2009, Pages 1648-1655

  Piscopo, Suzanne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MALTA   (Malta)

Author keywords

Health promotion; Intervention design; Intervention outcomes; Mediterranean diet; Nutrition education

Indexed keywords

CHRONIC DISEASE; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; EDUCATION; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; META ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCE; REVIEW;

CHRONIC DISEASE; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DIET, MEDITERRANEAN; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NUTRITIONAL SCIENCES;

EID: 75549090449     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009990504     Document Type: Article

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