Diet doctor Pierre Dukan has been struck off as a doctor - at his own request - after he suggested that thin students should be awarded better grades.

The French Order of Physicians - the equivalent of our British Medical Association - criticised his idea that thin exam-year students should be awarded extra points over their fatter friends. More...

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