Nutrition
Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 464-465 , June 2000

The great protein fiasco revisited

  • Donald S McLaren, MD

      Affiliations

    • Worthing, West Sussex, UK
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorrespondence to: Donald S. McLaren, MD, 12 Offington Avenue, Worthing, West Sussex BN14 9PE, UK

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 Classic Editors: Stanislaw Berger, PhD, FACS; Donald S. McLaren, MD, PhDThe Great Protein Fiasco. Donald S. McLaren. Lancet 1974;ii:93.

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Nutrition
Volume 16, Issue 6 , Pages 464-465 , June 2000