A long tradition has associated dietary fibres (DFs) as being beneficial to human health and protective against a range of diseases that are common in the Western world, including colon cancer. However, their effects on protecting against the latter disease have been controversial since the publicat
Dietary Phytoestrogens and Health
β Scribed by Teresa Cornwell; Wendie Cohick; Ilya Raskin
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2004
- Weight
- 57 KB
- Volume
- 35
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0931-7597
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