Lifestyle Is the Medicine, Culture Is the Spoon: The Covariance of Proposition and Preposition*

American Journal of Lifestyle Medicine

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 301-305

  Katz, David L ^a  

^a YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

culture; diet; health; lifestyle; physical activity

Indexed keywords

EID: 84907203391     PISSN: 15598276     EISSN: 15598284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1559827614527720     Document Type: Review

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