Breast feeding and obesity

BMJ

Volumn 319, Issue 7224, 1999, Pages 1576-

  Wadsworth, Michael ^a   Marshall, Sarah ^a   Hardy, Rebecca ^a   Paul, Alison ^b   Hebebrand, Johannes ^c  

^a ROYAL FREE AND UNIVERSITY COLLEGE MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b MRC Human Nutrition Research Resource Centre   (United States)

^c PHILIPPS UNIVERSITY MARBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BREAST FEEDING; BREAST MILK; CALORIC INTAKE; HUMAN; LETTER; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; OBESITY; OCCUPATION; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIAL ASPECT; SOCIAL CLASS;

EID: 0033547601     PISSN: 09598138     EISSN: 14685833     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/bmj.319.7224.1576     Document Type: Letter

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