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Jamaican studies in nutrition and child development, and their implications for national development

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 February 2007

Sally M. Grantham-McGregor  and
George Cumper
Sally M. Grantham-McGregor
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
George Cumper
Affiliation:
Tropical Metabolism Research Unit, University of the West Indies, Mona, Kingston, Jamaica
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Symposium on ‘Nutrition and development’
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Proceedings of the Nutrition Society , Volume 51 , Issue 1 , May 1992 , pp. 71 - 79
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Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1992

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