New Light on Obesity

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There seems to be no end to the contradictory statements made about human obesity. Here are a few. Obesity is the result of a metabolic defect; no, it is no more than the unfettered drive for pleasure derived from eating. Obesity is genetically determined; no, it is the consequence of an abundance of foods and a sedentary life style. Obesity can be reversed by sensible changes in life style; no, five-year treatment successes are practically nonexistent. But some facts about obesity cannot be contradicted. The laws of thermodynamics are as applicable to human obesity as to the rest of the . . .
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