Whole-grain consumption and chronic disease: Protective mechanisms

Nutrition and Cancer

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 14-21

  Slavin, Joanne ^a   Jacobs, David ^b   Marquart, Leonard ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

^c GENERAL MILLS INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIOXIDANT; LIGNAN; PHYTOESTROGEN;

CARDIOVASCULAR DISEASE; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIETARY INTAKE; GRAIN; HUMAN; MALIGNANT NEOPLASTIC DISEASE; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW;

EID: 0031025735     PISSN: 01635581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01635589709514495     Document Type: Review

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