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- Biochemical, Physiological, and Molecular Aspects of Human Nutrition - E-Book.St. Louis, MO: Elsevier Health Sciences, 2013
- Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism.6th ed. Boston, MA: Cengage Learning, 2012
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July 13,
2019
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© 2019 Published by Elsevier Inc. on behalf of Society for Nutrition Education and Behavior.
