This hoax may be visited at this link:
http://www.pnmj.org/0032205_curing_obesity.asp
Do you have any evidence to support your hoax allegation?
The whole thing is a hoax. Follow the FR thread.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1373830/posts?page=26#26
Or read about it on their own website.
http://www.pnmj.org/last.asp
Go here, and scroll down to "A Big Fat Hoax".
I would guess the tip-off is that the "Pacific Northwest Medical Journal" isn't cited anywhere, and the only thing that comes up on Google is that it's a sponsored link on Broken Newz.