From a reductionist to a holistic approach in preventive nutrition to define new and more ethical paradigms

Healthcare (Switzerland)

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1054-1063

  Fardet, Anthony ^a   Rock, Edmond ^a  

^a INRA and University of Auvergne   (France)

Author keywords

Food ranking; Food structure; Healthy core metabolism; Healthy life years; Holism; Intervention studies; Preventive nutrition; Reductionism; Sustainability

Indexed keywords

EID: 85036504039     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22279032     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/healthcare3041054     Document Type: Article

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