Using body image to help men manage weight problems

Hazardous Waist: Tackling Male Weight Problems

Volumn , Issue , 2016, Pages 36-47

  Gillon, Ewan ^a   McPherson, Kerri ^b  

^a GLASGOW CALEDONIAN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b QUEEN MARGARET UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

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