Does artificial light-at-night exposure contribute to the worldwide obesity pandemic?

International Journal of Obesity

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2016, Pages 815-823

  Rybnikova, N A ^a   Haim, A ^a   Portnov, B A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL LIGHT AT NIGHT EXPOSURE; BIRTH RATE; BODY MASS; CALORIC INTAKE; FEMALE; FOOD INTAKE; HUMAN; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT EXPOSURE; LOCOMOTION; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OBESITY; PANDEMIC; PHOTOPERIODICITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; URBANIZATION; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; HEALTH SURVEY; PHYSIOLOGY; POLLUTION; RADIATION RESPONSE; RISK FACTOR; SLEEP; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; URBAN POPULATION; WAKEFULNESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

BODY MASS INDEX; CIRCADIAN CLOCKS; CIRCADIAN RHYTHM; ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; FEEDING BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; LIGHTING; MALE; OBESITY; PANDEMICS; PHOTOPERIOD; PREVALENCE; RISK FACTORS; SLEEP; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WAKEFULNESS; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 84959102063     PISSN: 03070565     EISSN: 14765497     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ijo.2015.255     Document Type: Article

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