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...weight problem. But the conventional wisdom among experts that 95% of all dieters are doomed to regain their lost weight may be too pessimistic. One reason researchers have such a bleak view of dieting is a famous study of 100 people conducted in the late 1950s by Dr. Albert Stunkard, now a professor emeritus at the University of Pennsylvania. Only two of his subjects were able to maintain their weight loss for two years. "That was a period when we had no treatment for obesity," Stunkard says. "The medical profession thought it was either a psychiatric issue or a metabolic...