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Healthy Choices for Healthy Hearts: How Front-of-Pack Food Labeling Can Help Reverse the Global Obesity Epidemic

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|Oct 2020

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DOI: https://doi.org/10.5334/gh.935 | Journal eISSN: 2211-8179
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Submitted on: Oct 12, 2020
Accepted on: Oct 15, 2020
Published on: Oct 16, 2020
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