Healthy convenience: Nudging students toward healthier choices in the lunchroom

Journal of Public Health (United Kingdom)

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 370-376

  Hanks, Andrew S ^a   Just, David R ^a   Smith, Laura E ^a   Wansink, Brian ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

children; food and nutrition; obesity

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; DECISION MAKING; FAST FOOD; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMAN; METHODOLOGY; NUTRITION; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; STATISTICS; STUDENT;

ANIMALS; CHILD; CHILD WELFARE; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; DECISION MAKING; FAST FOODS; FOOD HABITS; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; NUTRITION SURVEYS; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; STUDENTS;

EID: 84865575714     PISSN: 17413842     EISSN: 17413850     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/pubmed/fds003     Document Type: Article

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