Early-life nutrition and long-term appetite regulation

Early Life Nutrition, Adult Health and Development: Lessons from Changing Diets, Famines and Experimental Studies

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 281-303

  Amarger, Valerie ^a   Parnet, Patricia ^a  

^a Universite de Nantes   (France)

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