Fast food and nutritional perceptions in the age of "globesity": Perspectives from the provincial Philippines

Food and Foodways

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-49

  Matejowsky, Ty ^a  

^a UCF Brevard Campus ^*  (United States)

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EID: 68149125097     PISSN: 07409710     EISSN: 15423484     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07409710802701470     Document Type: Article

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