Evidence on the Food Environment and Obesity

Preventing Childhood Obesity: Evidence Policy and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 113-119

  Cohen, Deborah A ^a  

^a RAND CORPORATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Calorie labeling and portion sizes regulation consumed calorie tracking; Food accessibility regulation schools replacing unhealthy cafeteria; Food advertising cues artificial hunger stimulation; Food environment and obesity; Food environment change nutrition transition; Food environment regulation as promising intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885999759     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444318517.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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