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Regardless of method, the quest for permanent slimness is rarely rewarding. According to Dr. Alvan Feinstein of Yale medical school, the success rate of weight-loss programs is "terrible, much worse than in cancer." Out of every 100 obese patients, some doctors have found, only a dozen can be expected to lose significant amounts of weight in a yearlong treatment program. Of that happy dozen, ten can be expected to gain back their excess poundage during the following year...
...cited the Montfort Hospital for a "considerable lack of liaison between the various departments" and urged it to adopt better administrative practices. It also heard testimony about other patients' postoperative problems (one woman told of an overwhelming though inexplicable desire to eat mud) which raised new doubts about weight-loss surgery...
...weight-loss so important? Because the weight that is lost turns fearsomely into energy, according to Einstein's famous equation: E equals mc². (For details, see chart...
Uranium fission works by dividing large "bushel basket" nuclei. When a uranium nucleus splits in two, forming two smaller nuclei such as krypton and barium, the weight of all fragments added together is less than that of the original uranium. The weight-loss turns into free energy...