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"The Obesity Epidemic is the most comprehensive demolition job on the arrogance and ignorance of the health profession I have ever read".
Barry Groves Author of Trick and Treat: How 'healthy eating' is making us ill

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References - Introduction

1 Colleen S.W. Rand and Alex M. C. Macgregor, “Successful weight loss following obesity surgery and the perceived liability of morbid obesity”,  International Journal of Obesity, (1991). (The study results are presented in the summary of this book).
2 (*) British Dietetic Association’s leaflet “Want to lose weight & keep it off…?” (http://www.bda.uk.com/foodfacts/Want2LoseWeight.pdf)
3 https://apps.who.int/infobase/report.aspx. Wadsworth M, Kuh D, Richards M, Hardy R, The 1946 National birth cohort (MRC national Survey of Health and development).
4 Centres for disease control and prevention, National Centre for Health Statistics, United States, (2006), Figure 13, Data from the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES).
5 Thomas Hawkes Tanner, The Practice of Medicine, (p217), (1869).
6 “On the Method of Theoretical Physics” The Herbert Spencer Lecture, delivered at Oxford (10 June 1933); also published in Philosophy of Science, Vol. 1, No. 2 (April 1934), pp. 163-169.
7 One of the forecasts of the UK Foresight Report: “Tackling Obesities: Future Choices”, (October 2007).