Trends in bowel cancer in selected countries in relation to wartime changes in flour milling

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• We would like to thank Mr. Warren Shepperd for the preparation of the diagrams, and Joan Roberts and Marilyn Bushell for preparation of the manuscript. All are of the Monash Medical School. Others, too numerous to name, assisted greatly in tracing the often obscure documentation of wartime dietary changes. The research was done while John W. Powles was on study leave at the Dunn Clinical Nutrition Centre, Cambridge, UK, and D.R.R. Williams was on the staff of the same centre.
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