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This would be a terrific idea if the rate-limiting problem in the average shopper's ability to discern better nutrition were their inability to rotate a bag or box through 180 degrees.
David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition in a Second-Rate Hen House M.D. David Katz 2012
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This would be a terrific idea if the rate-limiting problem in the average shopper's ability to discern better nutrition were their inability to rotate a bag or box through 180 degrees.
David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition in a Second-Rate Hen House M.D. David Katz 2012
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This would be a terrific idea if the rate-limiting problem in the average shopper's ability to discern better nutrition were their inability to rotate a bag or box through 180 degrees.
David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition in a Second-Rate Hen House M.D. David Katz 2012
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In chemistry you have the concept of the rate-limiting step, which dictates that the overall rate of a complex chemical process is dictated by that of the slowest step.
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This would be a terrific idea if the rate-limiting problem in the average shopper's ability to discern better nutrition were their inability to rotate a bag or box through 180 degrees.
David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition in a Second-Rate Hen House M.D. David Katz 2012
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This would be a terrific idea if the rate-limiting problem in the average shopper's ability to discern better nutrition were their inability to rotate a bag or box through 180 degrees.
David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition in a Second-Rate Hen House M.D. David Katz 2012
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This would be a terrific idea if the rate-limiting problem in the average shopper's ability to discern better nutrition were their inability to rotate a bag or box through 180 degrees.
David Katz, M.D.: Nutrition in a Second-Rate Hen House M.D. David Katz 2012
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But she added that "we are entering a phase in which Iran's enrichment capacity will no longer be the important rate-limiting step in producing a bomb because breakout time will be in the order of weeks, not months."
Iran and the effort to halt its nuclear ambitions Glenn Kessler 2011
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It appears to be slightly less effective than Qnexa, and perhaps slightly less encumbered by side effects, although nausea appears to be common enough to be rate-limiting.
David Katz, M.D.: Weight Loss and Wonder Drugs: Something Is Fishy 2010
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NAC does this by supplying cysteine, an amino acid which is the rate-limiting constituent in glutathione biosynthesis.
An Undetectable Athletic Performance Enhancer? « Isegoria 2008
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