Motives underlying healthy and unhealthy eating among university students in Mauritius

Current Nutrition and Food Science

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 265-274

  Seebun, Ruvina ^a   Mahomoodally, Fawzi M ^a   Subratty, Anwar H ^a   Ramasawmy, Deerajen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

Author keywords

Eating behaviour; Food motives; Foods; Health; Students; University of Mauritius

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTITUDE; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; DECISION MAKING; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; MAURITIUS; MOTIVATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; STRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE; UNIVERSITY STUDENT; WEIGHT CONTROL;

EID: 84870172396     PISSN: 15734013     EISSN: 22123881     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2174/157340112803832138     Document Type: Article

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