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Volume 4 - 2012 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fnene.2012.00007

Food Addiction and Obesity: Do Macronutrients Matter?

  • Tanya Zilberter1*corresponding author
  1. 1 Infotonic Consultancy Stockholm, Sweden
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Zilberter, T. (2012). Food Addiction and Obesity: Do Macronutrients Matter?. Frontiers in Neuroenergetics, Volume 4. https://doi.org/
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*Correspondence: Tanya Zilberter

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