Nutrition Research
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 45-55 , January 2003

Relationship between adolescents’ food-related beliefs and food intake behaviors

  • Madeleine Nowak

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +61 7 47961748; fax: + 61 7 47961767.
    • ,
  • Petra Büttner

      Affiliations

    • School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine, James Cook University, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia

Received 30 November 2001 ,Revised 2 August 2002 ,Accepted 5 August 2002.

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Nutrition Research
Volume 23, Issue 1 , Pages 45-55 , January 2003

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