Making sense of what is healthy for you: Children’s and adults’ evaluative categories of food

Appetite and Nutritional Assessment

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 175-187

  Nguyen, Simone P ^a   McCullough, Mary Beth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

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