The emerging obesity epidemic: An introduction

Geographies of Obesity: Environmental Understandings of the Obesity Epidemic

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 15-37

  Popkin, Barry M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

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