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Parental influences on children's diets

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Jane Wardle
Jane Wardle
Affiliation:
Imperial Cancer Research Fund Health Behaviour Unit, Institute of Psychiatry, University of London, London SE5 8AF
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 54 , Issue 3 , November 1995 , pp. 747 - 758
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