Increasing fruit and vegetable consumption through a healthy eating blog: A feasibility study

JMIR Research Protocols

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2017, Pages

  Caplette, Marie Eve ^a,b   Provencher, Véronique ^a   Bissonnette Maheux, Véronique ^a   Dugrenier, Marilyn ^a   Lapointe, Annie ^a   Gagnon, Marie Pierre ^c   Straus, Sharon ^d   Desroches, Sophie ^a,b  

^a LAVAL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b University Laval   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Blogs; Feasibility; Healthy eating; Knowledge translation; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 85028678471     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19290748     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2196/resprot.6622     Document Type: Article

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