About 15 years ago, Dr. Sue McElroy, a psychiatrist in Mason, Ohio, started noticing a pattern. People came to see her because they were depressed, but they frequently had a more visible ailment as well: They were heavy.McElroy was convinced there had to be a connection."Many of my [depressed] patients were obese. And they were very upset by obesity,'' McElroy recalled. "I looked into the literature, and it said there was no relationship. It didn't make sense."That sense of [...]
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