Blame our evolved gustatory preferences

Young Consumers

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 72-75

  Saad, Gad ^a  

^a Gina Cody School of Engineering and Computer Science   (Canada)

Author keywords

Childhood obesity; Evolutionary theory; Gustatory preferences

Indexed keywords

EID: 70350288258     PISSN: 17473616     EISSN: 17587212     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/17473610610718008     Document Type: Article

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