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May 11, 2007

More on the futility of dieting

dieting_for_dummies.jpgEarlier posts here, here and here discussed the general ineffectiveness of dieting. Now, this Gina Kolata/NY Times article reports that researchers at Rockefeller University are finding that "it is entirely possible that weight reduction, instead of resulting in a normal state for obese patients, results in an abnormal state resembling that of starved nonobese individuals.”

In other words, being fat may just be an inherited condition.

Posted by Tom at May 11, 2007 4:00 AM

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