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Gina Kolata is a science writer for the New York Times and author of Ultimate Fitness and the national bestseller, Flu. "Kolata may be the best writer around covering the science of health...In chapters equally entertaining and dismaying, Kolata traces the history of dieting fads back to the 19th century;discusses our chaning ideas about the ideal body and most importantly, explains how genetic and biochemical understanding has replaced the view of obesity as a lack of self-control." (Publisher's Weekly)