McGovern's Senate Select Committee on Nutrition and Human needs versus the meat industry on the diet-heart question (1976-1977)

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 104, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 59-69

  Oppenheimer, Gerald M ^a,b   Daniel Benrubi, I ^c  

^a CITY UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

^b Department of Medicine   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMAL; DIET; FOOD INDUSTRY; GOVERNMENT; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEART DISEASES; HISTORY; HUMAN; MEAT; POLICY; UNITED STATES; ARTICLE; HEART DISEASE;

ANIMALS; DIET; FEDERAL GOVERNMENT; FOOD INDUSTRY; HEALTH POLICY; HEART DISEASES; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HUMANS; MEAT; PUBLIC POLICY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 84891694534     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2013.301464     Document Type: Article

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