Cracking the Fat Riddle [news]
If Kerry Sieger were a stone age hunter-gatherer instead of a 21st century molecular biologist, chances are she would have the taut, trim body of her dreams. In college, however, Sieger underwent such a dramatic weight gain that, ever since, she has been a size 6 butterfly struggling to emerge from a chrysalis of size 20 clothes.
Over the years, she has tried a succession of diets--the Scarsdale
diet, the Nutri/System diet, the Michael Thurmond 6-Week Body Makeover
diet, even the cabbage-soup diet--but the pounds she has repeatedly
lost have relentlessly crept back.