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Our fight with fat: Why is obesity getting worse?

  • Written by Kenneth Cusi, Professor of Endocrinology, University of Florida
imageA woman exercising. Thousands of people will be doing the same this week in an effort to lose weight, a perennial resolution.UConn Rudd Center for Food Policy and Obesity, CC BY-SA

Gyms across the country will be packed in the new year with people sticking, however briefly, to their New Year’s resolution to lose weight. Most of them do not...

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