Overweight and What It Takes to Stay Trim
Report
By: Marjorie B. Washbon and Gail G. Harrison
Date: 1969
Source: Washbon, Marjorie B., and Gail G. Harrison. Overweight and What It Takes to Stay Trim. In Food For Us All: The Yearbook of Agriculture 1969. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1969, 304–307, 308–309.
About the Authors: Marjorie B. Washbon earned a Ph.D. in nutrition from the University of South Carolina in 1955 and was a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) nutritionist between 1959 and 1992. In 1982, together with Gail G. Harrison and Helen Gifft, she co-authored the book Nutrition, Behavior, and Change. Gail G. Harrison was a nutritionist at the USDA during the 1960s. Currently professor and chair of the Department of Community Health Science at the University of California at Los Angeles, she has conducted research in the area of cancer prevention through dietary...
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