Elements Of Competing Theories Account For Resistance To Weight Loss, Could Suggest New Strategies

There is so much s**t in this article, that the fan blade is stuck.

"A new mathematical model of the physiological regulation of body weight suggests a potential mechanism underlying the difficulty of losing weight, one that includes aspects of two competing hypotheses of weight regulation. In the January issue of Cell Metabolism, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators outline a system in which there may be several steady states to which an animal's weight tends to gravitate, rather than a single 'set point.'...

'Our animal model was based on limited data, so its predictive value needs to be verified experimentally, and it can be further improved by the inclusion of other physiological factors,' says Tam, a student in the Harvard-MIT Health Sciences and Technology Program. 'If human body weight exhibits the multi-steady-state phenomenon that our model predicts, and if methods could be developed - either drugs or lifestyle changes - to ease the transition between those states, it may be possible to develop new therapies to help reduce body weight and sustain those changes.'"

"New therapies?"

Try the only one that will ever work.

Fewer Calories in than out.

This is an excellent reason to keep these mathematicians out of the weight loss debate.

They don't know how to run the numbers.