Behavioral healthy nutrition and physical activity counseling in cardiovascular disease prevention: where we are now?

Demosthenes B Panagiotakos^{1

2

3

4}, Matina Kouvari¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
² Department of Kinesiology and Health, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
³ Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.
⁴ School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

Editorial

Demosthenes B Panagiotakos et al. Hepatobiliary Surg Nutr. 2019 Oct.

. 2019 Oct;8(5):534-536.

doi: 10.21037/hbsn.2018.11.16.

Demosthenes B Panagiotakos^{1

2

3

4}, Matina Kouvari¹

¹ Department of Nutrition and Dietetics, School of Health Science and Education, Harokopio University, Athens, Greece.
² Department of Kinesiology and Health, School of Arts and Sciences, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, USA.
³ Faculty of Health, University of Canberra, Canberra, Australia.
⁴ School of Allied Health, College of Science, Health and Engineering, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia.

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Conflict of interest statement

Conflicts of Interest: The authors have no conflicts of interest to declare.

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