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What really makes Americans fat? Your story said it all in this sentence: "We are fat because we consume too many calories and expend too few." All other explanations--genes, hormones, carbs and fats--strike me as pale excuses. Want to lose weight? Get off the couch, get off the...
For all the talk about U.S. cultural, economic and military dominance, there is one scientific area in which America may not become a superpower: stem-cell research. And who might be? Britain. Last week the country's Medical Research Council (MRC) unveiled plans for the U.K. Stem Cell Bank in...
The fact that obesity has genetic roots does not explain the larger mystery. If obesity is so bad for us--and there is no question it is--then why are so many people susceptible to layering on excess fat? The answer may well lie in what is referred to as...
Genes, of course, do not make us fat. They merely set up a susceptibility to gaining weight under certain conditions--and without question, those conditions are now ubiquitous. In essence, says Dr. Walter Willett of the Harvard School of Public Health, sedentary lifestyles and a cornucopia of food have transformed...
Perhaps the future will bring better medications, at least for people who are morbidly obese. But for the broader population, the remedy must be sought elsewhere. And as we can't change the genes we are born with, we are left with one alternative--to change the environment that our...