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Tim Spector - Epidemiologist Reveals The Shocking Lies About Food and Fitness

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Is Obesity a Disease?

I think we obesity is a great example of how we need to talk about prevention more than just treating the disease and that's why we need it. I mean there are these you know there are a couple of cures that's not forget you There's a drug you can take now for diabetes and for some situations of extremity a weekly injection what does that do that switches your appetite signals off right. The other treatment is bariatric surgery where you move a bit of the stomach you cut out but the stomach and you join it up which has a 75% so permanent success rate as well. If we took it seriously more people would be probably getting these treatments which would eventually save the taxpayer a lot

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