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Sunday, 8th November 2009

Obesity

Obese Britons live on breadline VICTIMS of obesity are suffering from financial as well as health problems.

Stuart Waiton: 'Fat family' case shows need for some answers ARRIVING at the home of the now notorious Dundee "fat family" this week – a few hours after it was revealed that their remaining children were taken away from them – I found the mother and nine-year-old daughter crying, holding one another on

Stuart Waiton: Fat family are abuse victims not their well-loved children MORE than a year ago The Scotsman reported on a story about the 'fat family' of Dundee, a two-parent family with six obese children, who had been instructed by social services to thin their kids down or have them taken away.

Fat chance of shedding the pounds if you're too happy BEING too optimistic may hamper attempts to lose weight, a study suggested.

'Before the treatment I would want to eat to the end of the plateful. Now I don't'

Oi, fatty! You need to lose some weight

School pupils appeal to MSPs over tuck shop sweets ban

Appeal as 'obese' children go to care

Scotland's growing obesity scourge costs NHS millions

Simply the vest ... how men can win battle of the bulge

Number of children needing anti-obesity drugs rockets

Obese children as young as 12 show signs of heart disease

'Fat blind' Brits told they are putting on a pound every year

'Brown fat' could hold the answer to obesity epidemic

Iced latte 'will make you a fatty'

£114,000 bid to make family diet

NHS bill for weight-loss drugs balloons to £400k in Lothian

Obesity: 'More effort is required to target parents'

How girls may 'learn' obesity from mothers, while boys copy fathers

Weighty issue for UK Asians

Diet of dense foods is the trick

'Drastic gastric op has helped to turn my life around'

Don't be a silly sausage with diets – soya banger can beat the bulge

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