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Nutrition and the biology of human ageing: Ageing in the human population

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    H. Green

  2. Jean Mayer USDA Human Nutrition Research Center on Ageing and Friedman School of Nutrition Science and Policy, Tufts University, Boston, MA, 02111, USA

    I. Rosenberg

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Green, H., Rosenberg, I. Nutrition and the biology of human ageing: Ageing in the human population. J Nutr Health Aging 17, 707–709 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12603-013-0372-5

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