Posted on 01/01/2015 9:28:04 PM PST by BenLurkin
But the gene doesn’t seem to have always been a problem. If scientists had studied FTO just a few decades ago, they would have found no link to weight whatsoever. A new study shows that FTO became a risk only in people born after World War II.
The research, published this week in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, raises questions that extend far beyond obesity. Genes clearly influence our health in many ways, but so does our environment; often, it is the interplay between them that makes the difference in whether we develop obesity or cancer or another ailment.
But the relative importance of certain genes may shift over the years, the new study suggests, as our environment changes.
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Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis, a sociologist and physician at Yale University and a co-author of the new study, suggested that the influence of many other genes on health had waxed and waned over the past century. Reconstructing this history could drastically influence the way doctors predict disease risk. What might look like a safe version of a gene today could someday become a risk factor.
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Fat Gene? What Fat Gene, Gene Kelly wasn’t fat, nor was Jean Lockhart. Do you mean Phat Jee-Ene’ the girl rapper? She’s a married lady now.
We need more money to continue the research...
I’m afraid that genetics have a lot less to do with these things than the materialists would have us believe.
What about Gene Gene the Dancing Machine?
Lest we forget! Although I have a big jug of eye bleach handy just in case somebody pops up with that Gene Simmons exercise video, showing his frizzy afro and short shorts./
Or Gene Simmons?
Oh, yes. That shows how often I think of that celebrity.
Gene Simmons is the bass player from KISS.
Happy New Year Richard S. True to type, he immediately fakes a ‘wardrobe malfunction’.
I think they have the Gloria Tunderbutt lifestyle and while they can’t fit into a pair of Levi’s 501’s, they can find comfort in the 1002 blues...
Fat Gene....
Fat Gene would have been an apt FR name for me...lol
The gene was dormant until prolonged exposure to cathode tube rays.
genetics have a lot to do with it......how many slender people have desks jobs and eat like pigs?...lots....
We all have our weights and measures. I mentioned this before, but, I’m still upset that I only grew to be 5ft 8in. although I’m built strong and pretty stocky. For many years I had fooled myself that I was 5ft10. I lied for years, on insurance forms. I believed it too. Then one day a little high school girl working as a Nurses Aide, put me on that old fashioned metal scale at a Kasier Hospital. She loudly announced “Okay, we have your full height at five feet and almost eight inches.Thanks!” WTF!!!???
To some guys who are not that tall to begin with, an inch or two matters a great deal.
I was quietly in SHOCK and had to stop myself from asking for a re-do. I re-measured it myself went she left the room. I got 5ft 7.and three quarters. Damn! I stopped right there. Didnt want to know any more.
That coincides with the production of corn syrup and it’s inclusion into every food we eat. Surprise. Eating stuff that doesn’t exist in nature doesn’t end well.
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