‘Food is my heroin and it is killing me’
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‘Food is my heroin and it is killing me’

Anne Diamond Broadcaster and health campaigner

Anne Diamond describes a woman who needs help

I was scoffed at when I used the term ‘obesogenic’ on a talk show to describe how our world is making us fat. Perhaps the scoffers should ponder the story of Georgia Davis, the 17 year old who has had the most dramatic yo-yo diet I have ever heard of.

Nursing Standard. 25, 28, 28-28. doi: 10.7748/ns.25.28.28.s38

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