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Causes and consequences of dieting and anorexia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Andrew J. Hill
Affiliation:
Academic Unit of Psychiatry, Leeds University, 15 Hyde Terrace, Leeds LS2 9LT
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Abstract

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Type
Symposium on ‘Behavioural consequences of undernutrition’
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1993

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