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Long the top nutritionist in New York City's Health Department, Dr. Jolliffe believes that people may overeat for one of three main reasons: 1) simple habit,which may be the result of growing up with obese, gluttonous parents; 2) on purpose, as when a child tucks away gobs of food because then his nagging mother stops nagging; 3) psychosomatic urges, to compensate for some social, financial or sexual problem. The second and third causes eventually harden into habits...