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Vegetables and fruit are good for us so why don't we eat more?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Mike Rayner
Affiliation:
British Heart Foundation Health Promotion Research Group, Division of Public Health and Primary Health Care, University of Oxford Institute of Health Sciences, Headington, Oxford OX3 7LF, United Kingdom
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Abstract

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Type
Invited commentary
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 1998

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