Should cooking be a dietetic competency?

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 67, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 41-46

  Begley, Andrea ^a   Gallegos, Danielle ^b  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Competency; Cooking skill; Dietetics; Home economics; Intervention

Indexed keywords

EID: 77951181308     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: 17470080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2010.01392.x     Document Type: Article

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