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Obesity and Britain’s boys

Six young men and six experiences of being overweight. Find out how these boys and their loved ones feel about this stigmatising issue.

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Taking the piss

Council cuts have created public-toilet deserts across the UK, limiting journeys and days out for people whose medical conditions mean toilet access is essential. Campaigner Kevin Crowe highlights the issues.

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Surviving fatness

It took time for LMM to discover that being fat and poor are mutually exclusive. Here she describes resisting fatphobia by being visible and leaning in to the stereotype.

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An insider’s view of Play Well

Curator Shamita Sharmacharja offers behind-the-scenes insights into an exhibition about the serious business of play.

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  • "Antipon" : permanently cures obesity.
  • "Antipon" : permanently cures obesity.
  • "Antipon" : permanently cures obesity.
  • Obesity and bow legs (genu varum) in a six year old boy, Massachusetts, U.S.A. Photograph, ca. 1920.
  • Young man with marked obesity associated with undeveloped testes
  • In the management of endogenous obesity : Thrit (Cole) (formerly Thyropit).
  • Hormotone : for amenhorrhea - scanty menstruation associated with obesity and low metabolic rate.
  • The culture of the abdomen : the cure of obesity and constipation / by F.A. Hornibrook.
  • Figuroids : the scientific obesity cure : safely remove all superfluous fat from every part of the body, and quite restore the figure / The Figuroid Company Ltd.
  • For use in a salt free diet : Ruthmol, the chloride-free table salt : indications: cardiac disease with decompensation, renal affections, hypertension, slow healing wounds, tuberculosis, gout, obesity, allergic phenomena, eczema (idiopathic) / The Antigen Laboratories.
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