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Functional Foods: cholesterol-lowering benefits of plant sterols

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 March 2007

Jan Weststrate
Jan Weststrate
Affiliation:
Unilever Health Institute, Unilever Research, Olivier van Noortlaan 120, 3133 AT Vlaardingen, The Netherlands
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Nutrition discussion forum
Information
British Journal of Nutrition , Volume 84 , Issue 2 , August 2000 , pp. 253
Copyright
Copyright © The Nutrition Society 2000

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