Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 6 , Pages 604-611 , June 2010

Intake of nutritional supplements among people exercising in gyms and influencing factors

  • Janaina Lavalli Goston, M.FoodSci.

      Affiliations

    • School of Pharmacy, Department of Food Science, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Tel.: +55-31-8881-3421; fax: +55-31-3421-4005.
  • ,
  • Maria Isabel Toulson Davisson Correia, M.D., Ph.D.

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Alfa Institute of Gastroenterology, School of Medicine, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil

Received 25 February 2009 ,Accepted 20 June 2009.

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Nutrition
Volume 26, Issue 6 , Pages 604-611 , June 2010