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• Apr/16 - Training cuts student medics 'anti-fat' prejudice - BBC News online 16th April 2010
• Apr/12 - Liverpool City Council considering ban on word obesity so not to offend pupils - Liverpool Echo 12/4/2010
• Feb/13 - Obesity 'often set before age of two' - BBC News Channel 13th February 2010
• Jan/03 - Looking back over 40 years of food/obesity issues - TV programme
• Nov/28 - US university links exam success to weight loss - BBC Online

• Apr/14 - International Federation for the Surgery of Obesity and Metabolic Disorders Newsletter Vol4 No1 April 2010
• Apr/14 - Online weight loss surgery debate
• Feb/03 - Research Request from University of Surrey
• Oct/05 - WLSinfo at National Obesity Forum Conference
• Aug/25 - World Obesity Surgery Conference

• Single gene fuels overating risk recent research
• From Pulse Magazine Obesity Units refusing GP referrals for surgery
• StomaphyX - An incision free gastric bypass revision procedure
• Genetics and obesity an article by Dr Alex Blakemore