Are the Fat More Jolly?
Tags: OBESITY -- Psychological aspects; MENTAL health
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- `But I eat like a bird...'. // Tufts University Diet & Nutrition Letter;Mar93, Vol. 11 Issue 1, p1
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- In the eye of the beholder. Powers, Mike // Human Ecology;Fall96, Vol. 24 Issue 4, p16
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