{"id":84,"date":"2007-11-08T05:55:46","date_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/wordpress\/?p=84"},"modified":"2007-11-08T05:55:46","modified_gmt":"2007-11-08T13:55:46","slug":"a-cure-for-obesity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=84","title":{"rendered":"A Cure for Obesity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve stated previously that I think obesity will be cured by 2040. I imagine all the thin people of the future planted spud-like in their couches gawking at images of fat people from yesteryear.<\/p>\n<p>Well, the future may nearly be here. The recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2007\/11\/071106092003.htm\">discovery of the MIC-1 protein<\/a>, the molecule responsible for suppressing appetite and causing extreme weight loss in late stage cancer, may be the discovery that brings this about. I haven&#8217;t seen anything written about what side effects this might have, or how hard it will be to produce MIC-1 at a commercial scale however, so its not a sure thing.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, that will not solve physical fitness problem. But I think that can readily be done by combining World of Warcraft and the <a href=\"http:\/\/virtusphere.net\/\">Virtusphere.<\/a> If that catches on, it will be impossible to stop some people from exercising.<\/p>\n<div class=\"sharedaddy sd-sharing-enabled\"><div class=\"robots-nocontent sd-block sd-social sd-social-icon-text sd-sharing\"><h3 class=\"sd-title\">Share this:<\/h3><div class=\"sd-content\"><ul><li class=\"share-twitter\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-twitter-84\" class=\"share-twitter sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=84&amp;share=twitter\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Twitter\" ><span>Twitter<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-facebook\"><a rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-shared=\"sharing-facebook-84\" class=\"share-facebook sd-button share-icon\" href=\"https:\/\/stevenrbrandt.com\/?p=84&amp;share=facebook\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click to share on Facebook\" ><span>Facebook<\/span><\/a><\/li><li class=\"share-end\"><\/li><\/ul><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve stated previously that I think obesity will be cured by 2040. 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