Weight-loss programs: Commercial and popular diets

Encyclopedia of Body Image and Human Appearance

Volumn 2, Issue , 2012, Pages 798-808

  Webb, V L ^a   Wadden, T A ^a   Tsai, A G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-12-384925-0.00125-5     Document Type: Chapter

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