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Chair of the National Obesity Forum Dr Ian Campbell said the statistics were no great surprise.
BBC: UK urged to tackle obesity problem
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Dr Ian Campbell, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, told the BBC News website the new funding was potentially signficant.
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Dr Ian Campbell, chair of the National Obesity Forum, said he was very interested in the results of the study.
BBC: Obesity 'not linked to childhood'
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Dr Ian Campbell, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, told BBC News Online about 250 genes which may be linked to obesity were currently under investigation.
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Dr Ian Campbell, medical director of the charity Weight Concern, said the study was "interesting", but stressed the work had only been carried out in mice.
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Dr Ian Campbell of the UK's National Obesity Forum said he was not surprised by the findings and said they would probably be replicated if the test was carried out on British doctors.
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But Dr Ian Campbell, medical director of Weight Concern and a GP in Nottingham, said doctors had forgotten how great an influence lifestyle choices had on health, and were becoming more and more drug-oriented.
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