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Research Quarterly for Exercise and Sport Volume 59, 1988 - Issue 3
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Fitness Boom or Bust—A Canadian Perspective

Roy J. Shephard School of Physical and Health Education and Department of Preventive Mediant and Biostatistics, University of Toronto, Faculty of Medicine, 320 Huron St., Toronto, Ontario, M5S, 1A1, Canada
Pages 265-269 | Accepted 16 Feb 1988, Published online: 22 Feb 2013

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