tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10240033.post-1116366574155136732005-07-13T20:49:00.000-04:002005-07-13T17:24:20.226-04:00An article in <strong>Scientific American</strong>, entitled <a href="http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?chanID=sa006&colID=1&articleID=000E5065-2345-128A-9E1583414B7F0000">Obesity: An Overblown Epidemic?</a> cites a "growing number of dissenting researchers accuse government and medical authorities--as well as the media--of misleading the public about the health consequences of rising body weights." Seems that there may NOT be as iron-clad connection between obesity and illnesses such as diabetes and hypertension. Maybe our pudginess is not as damaging as we've been taught to believe. <br /><br />Have we been dieting, exercising, undergoing possibly dangerous surgeries for nothing? <br /><br />In a related article, Dr. Arthur Frank and Dr. Domenica Rubino have decided that people need an implanted pacemaker-like device that tells people they're full. <br />Not certain how it works, the docs think the stimulation expands the stomach a bit and the patient gets the feeling of being full. Drs Frank and Rubino think that may help people lose upt to 10 percent of their body fat<br /><br />And of course, it ain't cheap: the procedure will cost about $15,000, and the batteries need to be replaced about every five years.<br /><br />Okay, enough already!<div class="blogger-post-footer"><script type="text/javascript"><!-- google_ad_client = "pub-8017307570803806"; google_ad_width = 468; google_ad_height = 60; google_ad_format = "468x60_as"; google_ad_channel =""; //--></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script> </div>Deehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06577617317617824737noreply@blogger.com