Nutrition Research
Volume 23, Issue 10 , Pages 1297-1302 , October 2003

Female beauticians may be a high risk group for developing eating disorders

  • Yueching Wong

      Affiliations

    • Department of Nutrition, Chungshan Medical University, Taichung 403, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +886-4-2473-0022.

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doi: 10.1016/S0271-5317(03)00130-1

Nutrition Research
Volume 23, Issue 10 , Pages 1297-1302 , October 2003

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