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Stigma to Science: Yale's Role in Changing Our Understanding of Obesity and Its Treatment

For much of modern medical history, obesity was treated as a failure of willpower. Physicians commonly advised patients to "eat less and move more," reflecting a calorie-balance model that underestimated the complexity of human metabolism.

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