Vitamin “O”: The weight loss Wunderkind, by Osmund Agbo Recently, I got a call from an old friend. For reasons not unconnected with our different life trajectories, we had drifted apart over the years. But his purpose in calling wasn't rooted in a desire to rekindle the embers of yesteryears. No. Rather, it was an explicit inquiry into whether I could assist him in obtaining the elusive elixir of contemporary weight loss. In revealing tones, he shared that the specter of obesity loomed heavily in his family lineage, and across the...