Dietary Strategies to Prevent and Treat Obesity

Nutrition and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 48-54

  Jebb, Susan A ^a  

^a MRC HUMAN NUTRITION RESEARCH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chronic disease; Low fat diets; Morbidity; Obesity; Public health

Indexed keywords

EID: 0141604359     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470690611.ch7     Document Type: Chapter

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