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Functional foods: cholesterol-lowering benefits of plant sterols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

David I. Thurnham
David I. Thurnham
Affiliation:
Northern Ireland Centre for Diet and Health, School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Ulster, Coleraine BT52 1SA, UK
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Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 82 , Issue 4 , October 1999 , pp. 255 - 256
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1999

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