Limited supermarket availability is not associated with obesity risk among participants in the Kansas WIC program

Obesity

Volumn 18, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1944-1951

  Ford, Paula B ^a   Dzewaltowski, David A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT EL PASO   (United States)

^b KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATERING SERVICE; COMMERCIAL PHENOMENA; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ECONOMICS; FEMALE; HUMAN; OBESITY; POVERTY; RISK FACTOR; SOCIAL CARE; STATISTICAL MODEL; UNITED STATES; URBAN POPULATION;

ADULT; COMMERCE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; FOOD SERVICES; FOOD SUPPLY; HUMANS; KANSAS; LOGISTIC MODELS; OBESITY; POVERTY; PUBLIC ASSISTANCE; RISK FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77957136395     PISSN: 19307381     EISSN: 1930739X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/oby.2009.487     Document Type: Article

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