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An assessment of the nutritional and health status of an aguaruna jivaro community, amazonas, Peru

Elois Ann Berlin Joint Medical Anthropology Program, University of California, Berkeley and San Francisco
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Edward K. Markell Department of Medicine, Kaiser‐Permanente Medical Center, Oakland, California, U.S.A.
Pages 69-81 | Received 22 Jul 1976, Accepted 17 Nov 1976, Published online: 31 Aug 2010

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Paula S. Tallman, Armando Valdes-Velasquez & Giuliana Sanchez-Samaniego. (2022) The “Double Burden of Malnutrition” in the Amazon: dietary change and drastic increases in obesity and anemia over 40 years among the Awajún. Ecology of Food and Nutrition 61:1, pages 20-42.
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