There are hundreds of genes that play a role in weight regulation and many were designed for survival when food was scarce.

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Proponents of the legislation, after all, admittedly supported it as a vehicle to squeeze tobacco firms under the weight of FDA regulation.

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The call for greater transparency of regulation is given weight by a suggestion that information on the utilities held by regulators should be disclosable unless companies can show that this will cause substantial harm.

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Given this interpretation, it is not surprising that the IMF has thrown its weight strongly behind an enormous increase in the scale and scope of financial regulation in a series of papers leading up to the G20 meetings.

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