Fast food and the global epidemic of type 2 diabetes: Are we doomed to become obese and develop diabetes?

Chocolate, Fast Foods and Sweeteners: Consumption and Health

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 293-299

  Kaczorowski, Janusz ^a,b   Shubair, Mamdouh ^c   Kaczorowski, Maya ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTHERN BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

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