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OBESITY TASK FORCE GROWS FAT WITH DRUG COMPANY CASH
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/332/7555/1412-a

Ray Moynihan reports in the British Medical Journal that the drug
companies Roche and Abbott Laboratories provide approximately
two-thirds of the funding of the International Obesity Task Force
(IOTF), which has over £1m in cash reserves. Roche makes the
anti-obesity drug Xenical while Abbott Laboratories makes Reductil.
Dr. William Dietz, a senior member of IOTF and "well respected
authority on obesity" from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and
Prevention, is also a member of a U.S.-based committee reviewing
definitions of childhood overweight and obesity. Dietz, Moynihan
writes, is "one of the driving forces" behind the redefinition of
obesity "which some researchers believe may exaggerate the problem
and unnecessarily label children as diseased." Dietz declined to
comment to the journal.

SOURCE: British Medical Journal (sub req'd), June 17, 2006
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