Position paper on the need for portion-size education and a standardised unit of measurement

Health Promotion Journal of Australia

Volumn 28, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 260-263

  Bucher, Tamara ^a,b   Rollo, Megan E ^a   Smith, Shamus P ^c   Dean, Moira ^d   Brown, Hannah ^a   Sun, Mingui ^e   Collins, Clare ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEWCASTLE   (Australia)

^d QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^e University of Pittsburgh   (United States)

Author keywords

food unit; serve size; standard serving size.

Indexed keywords

CONSUMER; EDUCATION; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; NOMENCLATURE; PORTION SIZE; SCIENTIST; BODY WEIGHT GAIN; CALORIC INTAKE; CONSUMER ATTITUDE; FOOD;

CONSUMER BEHAVIOR; ENERGY INTAKE; FOOD; HUMANS; PORTION SIZE; WEIGHT GAIN;

EID: 85037731737     PISSN: 10361073     EISSN: 22011617     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/HE15137     Document Type: Review

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