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Review
. 2002 Oct 5;325(7367):757-61.
doi: 10.1136/bmj.325.7367.757.

Management of overweight and obese adults

Polly Hitchcock Noël  1 , Jacqueline A Pugh
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Review

Management of overweight and obese adults

Polly Hitchcock Noël et al. BMJ. .
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Increasing prevalence of obesity in United States (adapted from Flegal et al7)
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Tony Dowd, who weighed 20 stone (127 kg), lost his job with the AA for being “too fat”
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