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Obesity affects one in three Scots and places a huge strain on the public purse. The impact on the NHS is obvious and the health implications of being ­overweight also keep people off work. ‌

Encouraging people to live healthy lives, whether that is eating better, drinking less or going to the gym, have been staple public health messages for years. ‌

But the development of anti-obesity injections could be the game changer Scotland needs to tackle the crisis. ‌

Millions of people across the UK are paying for weight-loss jags and some of the transformations people have made are incredible.

But the roll-out on the NHS has been slow. So we welcome the UK ­Government funding a pilot project to give thousands of Scots in deprived areas access to anti-obes

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