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. 2008 Jun;16(6):1161-77.
doi: 10.1038/oby.2008.231. Epub 2008 May 8.

Obesity as a disease: a white paper on evidence and arguments commissioned by the Council of the Obesity Society

David B Allison  1 , Morgan Downey, Richard L Atkinson, Charles J Billington, George A Bray, Robert H Eckel, Eric A Finkelstein, Michael D Jensen, Angelo Tremblay
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Obesity as a disease: a white paper on evidence and arguments commissioned by the Council of the Obesity Society

David B Allison et al. Obesity (Silver Spring). 2008 Jun.
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