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designer for the newly created Master of Health Care Delivery
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and a Masters of Public Health from Dartmouth Medical School to
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health policy, conflict ... Fighting obesity with hot peppers
and olive oil Despite the burgeoning obesity epidemic we face,
weight loss studies are generally a dime a dozen and not worth
paying a much attention to. As a former consumer health-advocate
and endocrinologist Marvin Lipman MD once said, "Diets come in
two sizes: Portion size and exercise." A play on words of
course, but the point is that weight loss is about eating fewer
calories than you burn, weight gain is about the opposite.
Weight loss or gain, and by extension obesity, is a numbers
game. But two new weight loss studies out this week, in two very
different populations, are