Will We Keep Getting Fatter?
Yes. And then we will explode. No, actually, there is hope on the horizon -- the distant horizon -- for the overweight people of this world. New treatments and metabolic manipulations have proved very successful in mice -- all of which are now a perfect size four. Unfortunately, so far that success has not translated into human weight loss.
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