Is the Chilean diet a Mediterranean-type diet?

Biological Research

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 313-319

  Rozowski, Jaime ^a   Castillo, Óscar ^a  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILE; FAT INTAKE; FOOD AVAILABILITY; FOOD INTAKE; FRUIT; GREECE; ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN DIET; SPAIN; VEGETABLE;

EID: 4944253273     PISSN: 07169760     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4067/S0716-97602004000200018     Document Type: Article

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