Diet is a four-letter word: What can be done about America's unhealthy obsession with weight?

Life Style and Health Research Progress

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 183-207

  Pritchard, Mary E ^a  

^a BOISE STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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