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Obesity is not a lifestyle choice

12 July 2019

A new Norwegian study shows our increasingly unhealthy environments could be the reason obesity has been rising for 50 years. Dr Clare Llewellyn (UCL Epidemiology & Health) hopes the findings help change ideas of obesity being about “individual responsibility and personal blame".

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Read: Newsweek