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(Society for the Study of Human Biology Series. 44.) Edited by N. Cameron, N.G. Norgan, and G.T.H. Ellison. 272 pp., illustrated. Boca Raton, Fla., CRC Press, 2006. $89.95. ISBN 0-8493-2857-8.

There's nobody better than the Brits at breaking scientific bad news in plain, blunt language. Consider this dispiriting assessment of medical and public health professionals' track record to date on helping overweight children: "Regrettably, most dietary (and physical activity) prescriptions for the treatment and prevention of childhood obesity have had spectacularly unsuccessful results." That verdict, by M.B.E. Livingstone of the University of Ulster and K.L. Rennie of MRC Human Nutrition Research in Cambridge, England, comes at the end of a chapter on what determines children's food intake, and it typifies medical science's alarming ignorance about how best to respond to . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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