Nutritional Strategies to Prevent Weight Gain and Obesity

Overview

Journal Nutrients

Date 2023 Oct 14

PMID 37836463

Authors

Margaret Allman-Farinelli

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Abstract

It has now been 25 years since the World Health Organisation (Geneva, Switzerland) drew attention to the obesity epidemic (later becoming a pandemic) [...].

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