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Large-scale interventions and programmes addressing nutrition-related chronic diseases and obesity: examples from 14 countries

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  22 December 2006

Colleen Doak
Colleen Doak*
Affiliation:
Department of Nutrition, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 123 West Franklin Street, Chapel Hill, NC 27516-3997, USA
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*Corresponding author: Email doak@unc.edu
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Public Health Nutrition , Volume 5 , Issue 1a , February 2002 , pp. 275 - 277
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