Agricultural policies, food and public health
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Agricultural policies, food and public health.
What and how much we eat and drink has a significant influence on our health. this is evident in the epidemic of obesity sweeping across developed and developing nations alike, bringing in its wake a range of diseases including diabetes, coronary heart disease and some cancers. one main cause of this is a change in diet that has directly affected our health and well-being. For more than a centu...
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عنوان ژورنال: EMBO reports
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1469-221X,1469-3178
DOI: 10.1038/embor.2010.200