Healthy traditional Mediterranean diet: An expression of culture, history, and lifestyle

Nutrition Reviews

Volumn 55, Issue 11 I, 1997, Pages 383-389

  Trichopoulou, Antonia ^a   Lagiou, Pagona ^a  

^a NATIONAL SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OLIVE OIL;

ALCOHOL CONSUMPTION; CANCER; CULTURAL FACTOR; DAIRY PRODUCT; DIET; DIET RESTRICTION; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; ISCHEMIC HEART DISEASE; LEGUME; LIFESTYLE; MEAT; MILK; REVIEW; SOUTHERN EUROPE; VEGETABLE;

EID: 0031440809     PISSN: 00296643     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1753-4887.1997.tb01578.x     Document Type: Review

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