Scientific American Frontiers. Losing it

Description

Follows a group of 12 persons for several months as they adopt different strategies for weight loss, ranging from online diet systems to gastric bypass surgery. Also looks at research that attempts to explain the body's complex weight-regulation systems, and to explain, among other things, why dieting is difficult.

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57 min

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Date of Publication

2004

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Alexander Street

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