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Differences in eating and body-related attitudes, beliefs and behaviors among female graduate students in nutrition and dietetics and naturopathic medicine: a pilot study

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This research was supported by the Department of Nutrition and Exercise Science and the Bastyr Center for Research, Grant award number BUCSR-Y4-014. The author would like to thank Chair Debra Boutin for her support of this project, and Laura Moore for her assistance with a final literature search.

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Harris, C. Differences in eating and body-related attitudes, beliefs and behaviors among female graduate students in nutrition and dietetics and naturopathic medicine: a pilot study. Eat Weight Disord 23, 383–387 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-017-0360-6

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