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Another eminent obesity specialist, George Bray, fumes that only 2 per cent of the 36 million Americans with a BMI of more than 30 take obesity drugs - 'a disappointing failure at the marketing end'.And yet Shell's scepticism, even cynicism about the actions and motives of those involved in obesity research sits uncomfortably for with her eager portrayal of the progress that scientists are making for in understanding the biological basis of fatness. It's true that for this is a difficult time for science writers: it is hard to reconcile the excitement of discovery in the new genetic wonderland with the sordid and premature commercialisation of those discoveries. Shell does not meet the challenge. It sometimes seems as if The Hungry Gene was produced by two different writers: the first is determined to explain how far we have come in understanding the science of obesity, with all the academic rivalries, triumphs and false dawns along the way; the second assembles a saga of commercial greed, regulatory failure and systemic betrayal of the citizen.The
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