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Adults only: why don’t children belong to the clean-plate club?

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  1. Food and Brand Lab, Charles H. Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA,

    B Wansink

  2. Department of Health, Behavior and Society, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD, USA

    K A Johnson

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Wansink, B., Johnson, K. Adults only: why don’t children belong to the clean-plate club?. Int J Obes 39, 375 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2014.205

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