A small step for obesity but a great leap in the wrong direction for mankind

Obesity Facts

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 63-64

  Rigby, Neville J ^a   Müller, Manfred J ^b  

^a Neville Rigby and Associates   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIET; EDITORIAL; HUMAN; LIFESTYLE MODIFICATION; MALNUTRITION; MEDICAL SOCIETY; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBESITY; PHYSICAL ACTIVITY; PREVALENCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; THERAPY EFFECT; WALKING; WEIGHT GAIN; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

HUMANS; OBESITY; PREVALENCE; WORLD HEALTH; WORLD HEALTH ORGANIZATION;

EID: 67649211015     PISSN: 16624025     EISSN: 16624033     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000212597     Document Type: Editorial

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