For now the take-home message for clinicians treating obese people is that diet alone is unlikely to have much effect, Dr. Muoio said.
Well, first of all:
1) Duh.
2) Why is it always *women* only who get put into these studies? Because fat women are scarier than fat men? Why can’t you look at both in the same study? Or do dual studies of men and women?
3) Does it worry anyone else that if we start trying to mess with something like a “fat storage” gene, the more at risk we are of living in a society that looks a lot like Stephen King’s novel Thinner?
