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Giving Obesity the CHOP

Posted on June 23, 2008

I am once again drawn to research from a team at the University of Westminster, a renowned institution that doles out so-called science degrees in homeopathy. This time the paper in question, published in the inaugural issue of the International Journal of Food Safety, Nutrition and Public Health (2008, vol 1, issue 1, pp 16-32) is on that perennial favourite: what to do about the obesity epidemic.Ihab Tewfik, a senior lecturer in the School of Biosciences, at Westminster, reports that the prevalence and severity of people suffering from obesity has increased markedly worldwide, and adds...

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