Nice to see Gamespy use an unbiased source with nothing to lose if Wii Fit takes off 
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OH SNAP! 
http://www.obesitymyths.com/mythmaker1.4.cfm?id=14
Judith Stern
American Obesity Association vice president and co-founder Judith Stern is frequently presented as an impartial expert while her comments advance the agenda of her organization's pharmaceutical and weight-loss benefactors. Stern regularly uses hyperbole to describe obesity. In one case she said: "If we don't try something new, in about 10 years everyone in the country will be overweight or obese."
In 1997 the Newark Star-Ledger reported that eight of nine members of an influential government obesity panel were financially conflicted. One of those individuals was Stern, who sits on the scientific advisory board for Weight Watchers and has received "honoraria" from Knoll and Wyeth-Ayerst (pharmaceutical companies).
In 1995 Stern sat on the other side of the government table, showing up at FDA hearings on Redux to detail the health risks of obesity. That same year Stern chaired a government panel designed to set criteria for judging weight-management programs. Stern's group, AOA, is funded by Weight Watchers, Jenny Craig, and Slim-Fast. In other words, the co-founder of an organization funded by weight-loss companies was setting the government's standard by which her donors should be judged.
According to the owner of a fen-phen clinic in Florida, Wyeth-Ayerst encouraged him to send money to Stern. The St. Petersburg Times reported:
"A month after opening his clinics in February 1995, [John] Trevena sent Stern a $2,500 retainer. Stern testified several times before the FDA favoring approval of Redux, a second-generation version of fenfluramine. A few months later, Trevena made a $5,000 contribution to the legal defense fund of the American Society of Bariatric Physicians, composed of doctors who specialize in weight loss. These friends came in handy. When the FDA's advisory committee initially hesitated to approve Redux, Stern was quoted in an Associated Press story saying that doctors voting against the drug 'ought to be shot.'"
