America's obese.,,we know that. We also know losing weight is very hard. You can lose weight, but the minute you go back to your regular lifestyle – boom it comes back on any invites a little bit more to the party, and there you are even more obese than you were when you started. So there you go looking for another fad diet. And believe me, there are enough fad diets to feel the library of Congress even if it weren't bursting at the seams with other crazy books.

The researchers have done their jobs and proclaimed that you can lose weight pretty much equally on any of the diets out there. That's nice. But we're still bouncing right back into a syndrome called yo-yo dieting because we go up and down up and down and end up with Type Two Diabetes for the rest of her lives.

Oh but then we entered the age of gastric bypass surgery. The magic bullet – you go in the hospital they staple could rearrange or whatever your stomach and you're going to be thin forever. Maybe.