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...country where 1 in 3 adults is seriously overweight, the news carried by the journal Science last week--that Friedman and his colleagues at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and New York City's Rockefeller University had discovered a magical potion that melts fat in a matter of weeks--resonated with unusual force. Momentarily, at least, it buoyed the spirits of millions of such lifelong dieters as Barbara Cady, a former teacher from Fairmont, West Virginia, and boosted the stock of Amgen, the biotechnical firm based in California that holds the license on the underlying technology. For if Cady...
Defects in the ob gene are not likely to be a major reason for obesity in people, most experts concur. But that does not mean leptin might not be therapeutically useful for many other overweight people. In last week's Science, for example, a team of researchers from the pharmaceutical company Hoffmann-LaRoche described how they plumped up lean mice by giving them unrestricted access to high-fat food. Then they administered leptin. The mice responded by cutting their food intake and shedding the extra ounces, suggesting leptin may have value in reversing more typical cases of weight gain...
...that is the best news Barbara Cady could hope for. "I don't expect that this is going to be a panacea and that we'll all live happily ever after on hot-fudge sundaes," she says. "I don't think anyone who is overweight expects that. All we want is some help with a frustrating condition." After years of guilty eating and self-recrimination, it looks as though help for Cady, and for more than 50 million other seriously overweight Americans, may finally...
Congratulations for taking on a major social issue in your report on overweight Americans [Cover Story, Jan. 16]. While the leading reasons for obesity continue to be studied, there can be little argument that it is caused largely by an excess of food, insufficient exercise and a growing lack of self-respect. Time to shape up, America...
...battling the problem of fat: throw away the TV set. Nutritionists believe overweight people are particularly susceptible to external cues about food--and commercial TV offers a relentless barrage of such cues, showing creamy, crispy, salty, sugary, savory, toasty, melts-in-the-mouth, betcha- can't-eat-just-one concoctions. The dieter who wants to stop constantly thinking about food, yet spends each night in front of the tube, is doomed to failure...