A recent piece of research by Cancer Research UK, reported here by the BBC, says thousands of cases of cancer every year are as a result of obesity rather than smoking.

Having worked in bariatric and Upper GI surgery for many years I have seen the damage obesity causes, and the challenges we face with obesity are getting bigger and bigger every day.

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