Increased food energy supply is more than sufficient to explain the US epidemic of obesity
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- 1 December 2009
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- Published by Elsevier in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition
- Vol. 90 (6) , 1453-1456
- https://doi.org/10.3945/ajcn.2009.28595
Abstract
Background: The major drivers of the obesity epidemic are much debated and have considerable policy importance for the population-wide prevention ofKeywords
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