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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Health
Ella Pickover

‘Morally unreasonable’ to tackle childhood obesity with weight loss jabs, Chris Whitty says

Professor Sir Chris Whitty has condemned the practice of allowing children to become obese only to then prescribe them weight-loss injections as adults, labelling it "morally unreasonable".

England’s chief medical officer warned that the nation risks being perceived as having "failed catastrophically" on childhood obesity, an issue he believes is "storing up so much trouble for the future".

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