Diet and cooking practices in Egypt: Exploration of potential relationship to early-onset colorectal cancer

Nutrition Research

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 1998, Pages 785-797

  Soliman, Amr S ^a,b   Khorshid, Ahmed ^a   Ibrahim, Nabih ^a   Dorgham, Laila ^a   McPherson, R Sue ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS   (United States)

^b ANIMAL PRODUCTION RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Colorectal Cancer; Cooking Practices; Diet; Egypt

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER RISK; COLORECTAL CANCER; CONTAMINATION; COOKING; DIETARY INTAKE; EGYPT; FAT INTAKE; HIGH FIBER DIET; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MEAT; NORMAL HUMAN; POPULATION RESEARCH; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA;

EID: 0032077914     PISSN: 02715317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0271-5317(98)00064-5     Document Type: Article

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