Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 19, Issue 10 , Pages 690-696 , December 2009

Consumption of cod and weight loss in young overweight and obese adults on an energy reduced diet for 8-weeks

Received 21 July 2008 ,Revised 10 December 2008 ,Accepted 30 December 2008.

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☆ Support: The present study was funded by the Icelandic Research fond AVS, contract no R 048-05.

PII: S0939-4753(09)00004-0

doi: 10.1016/j.numecd.2008.12.013

Nutrition, Metabolism & Cardiovascular Diseases
Volume 19, Issue 10 , Pages 690-696 , December 2009

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