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The safety of dieting

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

J. S. Garrow
Affiliation:
Rank Department of Human Nutrition, Charterhouse Square, London EC1M 6BQ
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Abstract

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Type
Symposium on ‘Slimming’
Copyright
The Nutrition Society

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