Eating attitudes in a group of 11-year-old urban South African girls

  • Carmen D Petersen
  • Shane A Norris
  • John M Pettifor
  • Jenny M MacKeown

Abstract

Objectives: To explore and describe eating attitudes in early pubertal 11-year-old black and white South African girls in an urban environment undergoing transition.

Author Biographies

Carmen D Petersen
Medical Research Council Mineral Metabolism Research Unit and Department of Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. BA Hons
Shane A Norris
Medical Research Council Mineral Metabolism Research Unit and Department of Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. PhD
John M Pettifor
Medical Research Council Mineral Metabolism Research Unit and Department of Paediatrics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. MB BCh, PhD
Jenny M MacKeown
Medical Research Council/University of the Witwatersrand, Birth to Twenty Research Programme, Johannesburg. MB BCh, PhD
Published
2007-12-12
Issue
Vol 19 No 2 (2006)
Section
Original Research