1.   A family history of heart disease, cancer and diabetes and a weight problem as a teen-ager propelled him into obesity research.

2.   But obesity research is but one of dozens of research projects Millennium is pursuing.

3.   Dr. Jules Hirsch, an obesity research at Rockefeller University, agreed.

4.   Flier, like many other doctors conducting important obesity research, says he is waiting for something to offer that truly works.

5.   Obesity research seems to have entered a new phase.

6.   On occasion, obesity research has turned up the unexpected.

7.   Suddenly obesity research was transformed.

8.   The new discovery confirms that the intensive obesity research still continuing in mice is on the right track.

9.   The women had participated in obesity research at the university and were not recruited because of their insulin sensitivity or resistance.