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Obesity Metaphors
How Beliefs about the Causes of Obesity Affect Support for Public Policy
- In: The Milbank Quarterly
- By: Barry CL, Brescoll VL, Brownell KD, and Schlesinger M
- Publisher: Milbank Memorial Fund
- Published: 3/1/2009
This article is part of a special issue on obesity in the March 2009 edition of The Milbank Quarterly, available free of charge throughout 2009 at Wiley-Blackwell.
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