A food store-based environmental intervention is associated with reduced BMI and improved psychosocial factors and food-related behaviors on the Navajo nation

Journal of Nutrition

Volumn 143, Issue 9, 2013, Pages 1494-1500

  Gittelsohn, Joel ^a   Kim, Elizabeth M ^a   He, Siran ^a   Pardilla, Marla ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BODY MASS; COOKING; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; HUMAN; INTERVENTION STUDY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; SOCIAL MEDIA; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY;

ADULT; BODY MASS INDEX; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOOD LABELING; HEALTH FOOD; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HEALTH PROMOTION; HUMANS; INDIANS, NORTH AMERICAN; INTERVENTION STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NUTRITIONAL STATUS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS;

EID: 84883287527     PISSN: 00223166     EISSN: 15416100     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3945/jn.112.165266     Document Type: Article

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