The International Obesity Task Force: Its role in public health prevention

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Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 426-428

  Kumanyika, Shiriki ^a   Anitpatis, V ^a   Jeffery, R ^a   Morabia, A ^a   Ritenbaugh, C ^a   James, W P T ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

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