31.  Traditionally, doctors believed that obese people simply needed will power to reduce eating and lose weight.

32.  What is not in dispute is that Meridia is only for the most severely obese people and even then it is not a panacea.

33.  When leptin was first identified last summer there was great hope that obese people might be deficient in leptin, just as the obese mice were, Tartaglia said.

34.  A band that can be implanted around the stomach and tightened to help severely obese people lose weight won government approval Tuesday.

35.  A natural fat-buster that made headlines last month for slimming down overweight mice may not do the same for obese people, new research suggests.

36.  A natural fat-buster that made headlines last month for slimming down overweight mice may not do the same for really obese people, new research suggests.

37.  ALT levels generally are higher in men than women, in young adults, in people who exercise vigorously, in obese people and in even moderate drinkers.

38.  Bihain cautioned, however, that the drug would be appropriate only for extremely obese people who have not responded to other weight control measures.

39.  In practice, increasing energy expenditure is relatively ineffective, because obese people have a low exercise tolerance.

40.  In some obese people, the body does not respond to leptin.