Television viewing, computer game play and book reading during meals are predictors of meal skipping in a cross-sectional sample of 12-, 14- and 16-year-olds

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 537-543

  Custers, Kathleen ^a   Van Den Bulck, Jan ^a  

^a LEUVEN FOOD SCIENCE AND NUTRITION RESEARCH CENTRE LFORCE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Books; Computer games; Meal skipping; Television

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; BELGIUM; BODY MASS; BOOK; CHILD; COMPUTER; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRE; RECREATION; TELEVISION;

ADOLESCENT; BELGIUM; BODY MASS INDEX; BOOKS; CHILD; COMPUTERS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PLAY AND PLAYTHINGS; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEVISION; VIDEO GAMES;

EID: 77951248022     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980009991467     Document Type: Article

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