Fill in the blank: “I would be thin if only I didn’t (blank).” Just like everyone else, obese people overeat, eat when they are stressed or skip meals. Obesity is generally having 50 to 100 pounds or ...

“I don’t have the willpower to go on a diet, so this was the only way,” says Yomaira Jaspe, a Venezuelan woman whose eating decisions are currently dictated by a plastic patch sewn onto her tongue. A ...