The profile of the Greek 'XXL' family

Public Health Nutrition

Volumn 14, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 1851-1857

  Christoforidis, Athanasios ^a   Batzios, Spyros ^a   Sidiropoulos, Haralampos ^b   Provatidou, Maria ^b   Cassimos, Dimitris ^c  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b Health Centre of Eleftheroupoli   (Greece)

^c DEMOCRITUS UNIVERSITY OF THRACE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Children; Family; Greek; Nutrition; Obese; Socio economic

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOMETRY; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CHILD; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FAMILY; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; PARENT; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; QUESTIONNAIRE; STATISTICAL MODEL; TELEVISION;

ANTHROPOMETRY; BODY MASS INDEX; CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; ENERGY INTAKE; FAMILY; FEMALE; FOOD HABITS; HUMANS; LIFE STYLE; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MOTOR ACTIVITY; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OBESITY; OVERWEIGHT; PARENTS; POVERTY; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; TELEVISION;

EID: 84855407595     PISSN: 13689800     EISSN: 14752727     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1368980011000929     Document Type: Article

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