Self-regulation as a tool for promoting healthier children’s diets: Can CARU and the CFBAI do more?

Advances in Communication Research to Reduce Childhood Obesity

Volumn , Issue , 2013, Pages 119-151

  Aoki, Julie Ralston ^a   Moore, Elizabeth S ^b  

^a Public Health Law Center   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5511-0     Document Type: Chapter

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