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The not so clean plate club: food self-served won’t always result in food eaten

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  1. Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Liverpool, UK

    E Robinson, E J Boyland, J A Harrold & J C G Halford

  2. Department of Biostatistics, University of Liverpool, UK

    S Nolan & C Tudur-Smith

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Robinson, E., Nolan, S., Tudur-Smith, C. et al. The not so clean plate club: food self-served won’t always result in food eaten. Int J Obes 39, 376 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/ijo.2014.197

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