Nutrition Research
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 430-436 , July 2008

Dietary intake and nutritional status of vegetarian and omnivorous preschool children and their parents in Taiwan

  • Chin-En Yen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Early Childhood Development and Education, Chaoyang University of Technology, Taichung 413, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chi-Hua Yen

      Affiliations

    • Department of Family and Community Medicine, Chung Shan Medical University Hospital, Taichung 402, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Men-Chung Huang

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health, School of Medicine, Kaohsiung Medical University, Kaohsiung 807, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chien-Hsiang Cheng

      Affiliations

    • Critical Care and Respiratory Therapy, Taichung Veterans General Hospital, Taichung 407, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Yi-Chia Huang

      Affiliations

    • School of Nutrition, Chung Shan Medical University, Taichung 402, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Fax: +886 4 23248175.

Received 28 July 2007 ,Revised 22 February 2008 ,Accepted 14 March 2008.

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doi: 10.1016/j.nutres.2008.03.012

Nutrition Research
Volume 28, Issue 7 , Pages 430-436 , July 2008

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