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Cancer Research UK’S obesity campaign in 2018 and 2019: effective health promotion or perpetuating the stigmatisation of obesity?
- Correspondence to Natasha Varshney, University of Liverpool, Liverpool L69 3BX, UK; hlnvarsh{at}liv.ac.uk
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Cancer Research UK’S obesity campaign in 2018 and 2019: effective health promotion or perpetuating the stigmatisation of obesity?
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- Received March 10, 2020
- Revised October 17, 2020
- Accepted October 25, 2020
- First published November 25, 2020.
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January 10, 2022
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