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psychiatric medicine and obesity  

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  • The relationship of psychiatric medicine and obesity has become an important topic that goes beyond the implications for physical health in psychiatric patients. Understanding the connection between psychiatric medicine and its metabolic effects may eventually provide important clues about the nature of mental illness itself. [Source: Encyclopedia of Obesity; Psychiatric Medicine and Obesity]

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