WA health practitioners and cooking: How well do they mix?

Nutrition and Dietetics

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 65-69

  Cooper, Sheri ^a   Begley, Andrea ^b  

^a EDITH COWAN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Cookery; Dietetics; Health promotion; Intervention; Nutrition

Indexed keywords

EID: 79951998804     PISSN: 14466368     EISSN: 17470080     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1747-0080.2010.01494.x     Document Type: Article

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