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Genes are to Blame for Obesity in Kids

by Ann Smarty | January 13, 2009 at 05:31 am

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UCL reports:

A collaboration of scientists led by Professor Jane Wardle (Director of Cancer Research UK’s Health Behaviour Research Centre in UCL Epidemiology & Public Health) have published today in the ‘International Journal of Obesity’ new evidence that the tendency to overeat could be genetic.

Got a nasty FTO gene? Just can’t say no? Don’t blame yourself…blame your parents, and get that gene removed! …Yikes. (from TechRadar)

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israeli.agent

at 11:14 on January 13th, 2009

It is ridiculous to blame poor "genes" for humans becoming two legged hippopotamus. All they have to do is to eat to survive than doing otherway. And - hey - make do some kind of exercise just for half an hour a day.

- Eat lot of vegetables

- Drink water

- Reduce the saturated fat intake to a minimum. That means milk and milk products (yumm...cheese...) , beef, pork etc. Eat fish if you must.

Well, did I say break all the TV sets - no matter HD or otherwise.

Borrowing the punchline from a Canadian comedy artist. .."Be a man..."

Genes..Heh....!

Agent.

DLDog

at 09:35 on January 14th, 2009

Genes my rear end! If the kids are fat, it's the parent's fault.

Marisa Olivia

at 09:46 on January 19th, 2009

Totally disagreed. Most of it has to do with how children are raised before the age of 8 - by then, the major organs (ie. brain, lungs, etc.) have reached a state of maturity. Also by that age, overweight kids who have had a bad diet will be predisposed to being overweight throughout their lives. It's not really a nature vs. nuture question.... just feed your kids a few things that aren't made totally out of sugar. Science is not gonna justify this one. Genetics is so rarely a factor in this. Stop pretending.