Quantifying the association between obesity, automobile travel, and caloric intake

Preventive Medicine

Volumn 56, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 103-106

  Behzad, Banafsheh ^a   King, Douglas M ^a   Jacobson, Sheldon H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT URBANA CHAMPAIGN   (United States)

^b Simulation and Optimization Laboratory ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Automobile travel; Caloric intake; Obesity; Regression; Statistics

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; CAR; CAR DRIVING; DRIVER; ENERGY BALANCE; ENERGY CONSUMPTION; ENERGY EXPENDITURE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD PREFERENCE; HUMAN; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL STATUS; STATISTICAL MODEL; TRAVEL; UNITED STATES; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; AUTOMOBILE DRIVING; BEHAVIORAL RISK FACTOR SURVEILLANCE SYSTEM; BODY MASS INDEX; ENERGY INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD PREFERENCES; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBESITY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84872487761     PISSN: 00917435     EISSN: 10960260     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ypmed.2012.11.022     Document Type: Article

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