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Will success at tackling global obesity lead to global warming

  • Will success at tackling global obesity lead to global warming

    Expanding globesity continues to present many novel challenges to society, from combusting crematoria (1) to wider trolleys and longer endoscopes in hospitals (2). As we approach New Year, with its cyclically futile outbreak of good intentions, we wondered if the article in the Xmas BMJ (3) might unwittingly provide yet another excuse to defer impending dietary restraint – this time on account of saving the planet?
    18 December 2014
    David J Goldsmith
    Professor
    Eric P Heymann (Cantonal University Hospital of Vaud (CHUV) Lausanne, Switzerland)
    Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals
    London
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