Gender, fast food, and nutritional perspectives in contemporary Philippines

Asia-Pacific Social Science Review

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 1-20

  Matejowsky, Ty ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CENTRAL FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Fast food; Globalization; Obesity

Indexed keywords

EID: 77956916399     PISSN: 01198386     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3860/apssr.v10i1.1578     Document Type: Article

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