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UK Government could be first in world to reverse rise in obesity levels

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British Heart Foundation | 08 Nov 2021

A new report from a coalition of health organisations and experts has called on the Government to take action to reverse the increasingly high levels of excess weight in the population. No other country in the world has managed this across the population to date.

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