To lose weight, ditch the 'unisex' approach

Discussing America's obesity epidemic feels as fresh as a gas-station sushi roll. We've had the headlines, the task forces, the Michelle Obama gardens, the lurid rise and fall of Jared-from-Subway. Every few years, medicine rediscovers the problem like a dog finding the same buried bone and acting stunned.But researchers in Europe recently dug up something new. They studied hundreds of patients and found that obesity doesn't affect men and women the same way. It may be the same condition, but it...