Grant To Aid Obesity Research

Thieves.

"UT Southwestern Medical Center's obesity research team has received a $22 million grant from the National Institutes of Health to enhance its groundbreaking efforts to attack obesity from every angle, from studying fat cells to developing medicines."

"Every angle" except the one that will work, that is.

Wanna bet $22 million that they will not research simply consuming fewer Calories than are burned?

"The award, which has been formally announced, is one of nine interdisciplinary research consortia sponsored by the NIH Roadmap for Medical Research. These groups seek to solve difficult problems by blending approaches from multiple biomedical research disciplines."

Well, what do you expect from NIH, the government's child mutilation and abuse machine.

"The money, to be given over five years, fortifies UT Southwestern's Task Force for Obesity Research, a team of scientists and clinicians who are investigating the behavioral, molecular and metabolic mechanisms behind obesity and metabolic disorders.

'This extends and strengthens our task force's ability to conduct studies to gain much-needed insight into the key molecular pathways that govern energy metabolism and translate that into the development of new approaches to prevent obesity and treat associated metabolic complications, such as heart disease and diabetes,' said Dr. Jay Horton, associate professor of internal medicine and molecular genetics and the grant's coordinating investigator."

"Much needed"?

No.

Absolutely unnecessary.

It is only "much needed" by researchers who want to survive on the research equivalent of the public dole.

And we let them.

Shameful.

"The grant comes at a time when waistlines are bulging. Two-thirds of adults in America are overweight or obese, raising their risk of developing health maladies including heart disease, stroke, diabetes, fatty liver disease and others.

But the reasons why obesity and these conditions go hand-in-hand are largely unknown."

The reason is people are too fat. On the rare occasion when they lose weight, these conditions go away.

Waiting for other "knowledge" delays the fix and will make no practical difference.

End of story.

Take back the money before it is wastefully spent.