Association between more frequent chocolate consumption and lower body mass index

Archives of Internal Medicine

Volumn 172, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 519-521

  Golomb, Beatrice A ^a,b   Koperski, Sabrina ^a   White, Halbert L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

SATURATED FATTY ACID;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; CACAO; CALORIE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; VEGETABLE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BODY MASS INDEX; CACAO; CANDY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84858969551     PISSN: 00039926     EISSN: 15383679     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archinternmed.2011.2100     Document Type: Article

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