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tackling - ANSWER-defeating obesity - ANSWER-extreme fatness considerable - ANSWER-great, large cure - ANSWER-solution to an illness or disease condition - ANSWER-sickness, illness, disease sought - ANSWER-looked for solace - ANSWER-comfort metabolism - ANSWER-All of the chemical reactions that occur within an organism genetic - ANSWER-relating to genes or heredity hiccup - ANSWER-sudden catching of breath with a spasmodic contraction of the diaphragm sentences - ANSWER-considers, deems, says battling - ANSWER-fighting so-called - ANSWER-commonly described as metabolic rate - ANSWER-the rate at which the body uses energy nonsense - ANSWER-ridiculous, silly persistence - ANSWER-continual occurrence myth - ANSWER-story, lie sealed - ANSWER-closed tightly disabuse - ANSWER-to set right; to free from error culprit - ANSWER-the guilty, the responsible took the news - ANSWER-understood the new information philosophically - ANSWER-calmly disproved - ANSWER-to prove to be false or wrong discounted - ANSWER-ignored or doubted geneticist - ANSWER-a specialist in the field of genetics on the threshold of - ANSWER-at the start of morbid obesity - ANSWER-the condition of weighing two to three times, or more, than the ideal weight; also known as clinically severe obesity groundbreaking - ANSWER-innovative weak-willed - ANSWER-easily swayed slothful - ANSWER-lazy defect - ANSWER-imperfection, flaw, problem major - ANSWER-very important minor - ANSWER-small, unimportant variations - ANSWER-differences dictate - ANSWER-control predisposed - ANSWER-Tending toward or open to something beforehand putting on weight - ANSWER-gaining weight epidemic - ANSWER-a widespread outbreak of an infectious disease epidemic proportions - ANSWER-the seriousness of being an epidemic behaviour modification - ANSWER-changing one's behaviours hypothalamus - ANSWER-brain region controlling the pituitary gland that controls hunger regulating - ANSWER-controlling appetite - ANSWER-the psychological desire for food surgery - ANSWER-when a doctor cuts your body open and repairs or removes something severe - ANSWER-harsh side effects - ANSWER-reactions to medicine other than the one intended claimed many lives - ANSWER-killed many people rodent - ANSWER-the group of small animals that includes mice, rats, rabbits, and squirrels hormone - ANSWER-chemicals in the body leptin - ANSWER-A hormone produced by adipose (fat) cells that acts as a satiety factor in regulating appetite. manufactured - ANSWER-produced fat cells - ANSWER-Adipocytes, also known as lipocytes and fat cells, are the cells that primarily compose adipose tissue, specialized in storing energy as fat. lain - ANSWER-to lie flat freezer - ANSWER-a large piece of electrical equipment that is used for freezing food a stone in weight - ANSWER-14 pounds