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Nature 404, 631 (6 April 2000) | doi:10.1038/35007501

Open Innovation Challenges

foreword Obesity

Philip Campbell1 & Ritu Dhand2

We are all familiar with the term 'obesity', but few of us see it as a real disease. The large and manipulative diet industry characterizes obesity as arising from a lack of self-control, and this is a widely held belief.