Lebanese traditional diets and health effects

Wild-Type Food in Health Promotion and Disease Prevention: The Columbus Concept

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 493-498

  Hwalla, Nahla ^a   El Khoury, Dalia Tannous Dit ^a  

^a AMERICAN UNIVERSITY OF BEIRUT   (Lebanon)

Author keywords

health; Lebanon; traditional diet

Indexed keywords

EID: 84889954899     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1007/978-1-59745-330-1_34     Document Type: Chapter

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