Word: fatted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...those who have struggled to lose weight or keep it off, research into the origins of obesity has begun to offer an absolution of sorts. Last week two studies published in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that some fat people, rather than being slothful or gluttonous, have an inborn predisposition to gain weight. Reason: instead of burning off excess calories as others do, obese bodies are programmed to convert them into fat. Thus, while fat people may eat the same amount of food as thinner people do, they gain more weight. Moreover, their tendency to get fat...
Researchers have long suspected that a metabolic problem underlies obesity, but until now the evidence has been ambiguous. The studies are the first to have focused on people before they became fat and monitored them as they gained weight. The major finding: certain measurements of metabolism, such as the rate at which the body consumes oxygen and produces carbon dioxide, can be used to predict who is likely to become obese. Says Dr. George Bray, an obesity specialist at the University of Southern California: "It's the predictive nature of this work that is so important...
What does it mean? Some people, it appears, are programmed by their genes to store fat instead of burn it. Scientists speculate that this ability may be a vestige of early human history, when those who could live off their fat reserves were more likely to survive droughts and famines. The bodies of such individuals actively resist every effort to slim down. Below a certain weight, their metabolism slows in order to allow fat to accumulate, but their appetites remain undiminished. Once body weight rises to a certain point, the metabolism seems to speed up, so that they maintain that...
...presidential AIDS commission releases bold recommendations for fighting the epidemic. -- Are some people born to be fat...
...procedure, supervised by Bruce R. Rosen, an assistant professor at the Medical School and the director of Clinical Nuclear Magnetic Resonance at MGH, serves as the main emphasis of the entire project, entitled, "MRI--of body fat, ovulation, and estrogen metabolism...