The long and the short of it is, America may be the most obese nation in the world Britain is not far behind but it’s not anyone’s fault. Nothing at all to do with them. Fat genes, you see.
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Monday, April 7, 2008
Face it, fatty, your genes are innocent
According to new research carried out at University College London by the Health Behaviour Research Centre of the charity, Cancer Research UK, and published last week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there really is such a thing as a fat gene. Researchers who studied 5,000 sets of twins found that genetics has more of an influence on weight than upbringing, exercise and diet. Scientists said parents should therefore not be blamed if their child is fat, as three-quarters of the variations in children’s weight and waist measurements were determined by their genetic make-up.
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