Ethnic differences in body-size preferences: Myth or reality?

Nutrition

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 353-354

  Cachelin, F M ^a  

^a CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BEHAVIOR; BODY IMAGE; BODY SIZE; ETHNIC DIFFERENCE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NORMAL HUMAN; NOTE; OBESITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

EID: 0035010336     PISSN: 08999007     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0899-9007(00)00590-6     Document Type: Editorial

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