Discovery May Help Treat Obesity (nytimes.com)

So will eating fewer calories and whole foods and grains.

Somehow I feel that eating less food and higher quality food, paired with an active lifestyle may be a better treatment for obesity than trying to control proteins which turn on/off cellular fat types.

"Treat" obesity? That makes it sound like a disease, or something outside a person's control. Now I understand that some people are more genetically predisposed to become obese, but people treating it like a disease is part of the problem.

I was certain that the contents of this article were to be "Diet and exercise."

We've known how to wire jaws shut for a long time. This seems about how to make doctors' wallets fatter more than anything.

EDIT: typo