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Food and Nutrition Bulletin
Editor: Dr. Nevin S. Scrimshaw
Assistant Editor: Ms. Edwina B. Murray
Editorial Consultant: Ms. Sarah Jeffries
Senior Associate Editor:
Dr. Cutberto Garza, Director and Professor, Division of
Nutritional Sciences, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y., USA
Associate Editors:
Dr. Hernàn Delgado, Director, Institute of Nutrition of Central
America and
Panama (INCAP), Guatemala City, Guatemala
Dr. Peter Pellet, Professor, Department of Food Science and
Nutrition,
University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Mass., USA
Dr. Aree Valyasevi, Professor and Institute Consultant, Mahidol
University,
Bangkok, Thailand
Food and Nutrition Bulletin, vol. 14, no. 4
The United Nations University, 1993
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