[djf]

The entire article is at best, pathetically apologetic, and at worst, totally irresponsible journalism. Somewheres out there, there is an obese person, probably female, who read it, decided all her efforts were in vain because it's hereditary, so she gives up even trying, and three weeks from now, she's dead from heart disease, or complications from diabetes. Somebody should show the author a picture of the people who were in Auschwitz.

[Steve Eisenberg]

The entire article is at best, pathetically apologetic, and at worst, totally irresponsible journalism. Somewheres out there, there is an obese person, probably female, who read it, decided all her efforts were in vain because it's hereditary, so she gives up even trying, and three weeks from now, she's dead from heart disease, or complications from diabetes.

Read the article again, or, if it isn't scientific enough, Albert Stunkard's classic University of Pennsylvania studies showing dieting does not work. What is really irresponsible is to push people into a cycle of being on a diet for a year or two and then gaining back more than they lost. djf, how do you explain that diabetes is so much more prevalent precisely when people ARE going on reducing diets so often?

As for djf's last sentence, which I did not repeat, it is unspeakable.

There is no subject on which conservatives have been more snowed by the liberals than this diet and health business.