Adolescent nutritional awareness and use of food labels: Results from the national nutrition health and examination survey

BMC Pediatrics

Volumn 12, Issue , 2012, Pages

  Wojcicki, Janet M ^a   Heyman, Melvin B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; CHILD NUTRITION; DIET; DIETARY INTAKE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; ETHNIC GROUP; FOOD PACKAGING; HEALTH SURVEY; HISPANIC; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MULTIVARIATE LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBESITY; POVERTY; RACE DIFFERENCE; READING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; UNITED STATES; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD BEHAVIOR; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH PROMOTION; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION; STATISTICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; ADOLESCENT BEHAVIOR; FOOD LABELING; HEALTH BEHAVIOR; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NUTRITION POLICY; NUTRITION SURVEYS; OVERWEIGHT; RISK ASSESSMENT; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84861426664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712431     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2431-12-55     Document Type: Article

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