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The Best Way to Reduce Your Weight You hear this：No wonder you are fat.All you ever do is eat.You feel sad：I skip my breakfast and supper.I run every morning and evening.What else can I do?Basically you can do nothing.Your genes，not your life habits，determine your weight and your body constantly tries to maintain it. Albert Stunkard of the University of Pennsylvania found from experiments that，80 percent of the children of two obese parents become obese，as compared with no more than 14 percent of the offspring of two parents of normal weight. How can obese people become normal or even thin through dieting?Well，dieting can be effective，but the health costs are tremendous.Jules Hirsch，a research physician at Rockefeller University，did a study of eight fat people.They were given a liquid formula providing 600 calories a day1.After more than 10 weeks，the subjects lost 45kg on average.But after leaving the hospital，they all regained.The results were surprising：by metabolic measurement，fat people who lost large amounts of weight seemed like they were starving.They had psychiatric problems.They dreamed of food or breaking their diet2.They were anxious and depressed;some were suicidal.They hid food in their rooms.Researchers warn that it is possible that weight reduction doesnt result in normal weight，but in an abnormal state resembling that of starved non-obese people. | 
