Genes which prevent 4 million people gaining weight discovered, in new hope for slimming medicine

www.telegraph.co.uk ^ | 18 April 2019 • 4:00pm | Henry Bodkin, Health Correspondent

[ConservativeMind]

So that sounds like a defective repeat, that winds up being helpful.

Interesting.

[bankwalker]

skinny genes?

[Cowboy Bob]

Tight genes.

[Boomer]

That’s all well and good but it doesn’t really say how it will help anyone who tends to be heavy.

The magic shot or pill once a month that resets us into that mode the lucky few who have these lucky genes will be the real news. I’m not holding my breath this happens in my lifetime.

[Secret Agent Man]

No, the defective disruption is responsible for people gaining weight.

[wally_bert]

Anyone who invents that magic pill or shot will probably make Bezos look poor by comparison.

[Zuben Elgenubi]

My sister says, “I will not be defined by a doughnut.”

[W.]

Ya eat less, ya weigh less. It’s that simple!

[Boomer]

Anyone who invents that magic pill or shot will probably make Bezos look poor by comparison.

I agree which also makes me wonder why every drug company and lab isn't working on this. If this cure to obesity could be found in addition to a cure for cancer and other common life threatening diseases; the profits would be unimaginable. Of course the drug companies would then lose money for treating those illnesses and the hospitals would lose money for not having to co-treat them for them as well.

Maybe that's why they are in no rush to find these cures. Maybe the government is telling them to slow down or hold off so people die earlier so Social Security payments can end sooner. Yes, as a matter of fact, I am a cynic.

[fruser1]

“Medics have known...”

The tighter the genes, the heavier the patient, and therefore more medics required to lift them into the gurney.

[Calvin Locke]

Read the sci-fi story by by Alan E. Nourse, MD : "The Coffin Cure - 'Report on a Vaccine for the Treatment and Cure of the Common Cold"

Better yet, it's dramatized on (OTR) "X Minus One" in a half hour show.

[House Atreides]

skinny genes?
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I’d “wear” them.

[KarlInOhio]

The team found that people with two copies of these particular variants - one in over 1,000 people in the UK - were on average 2.5 kg lighter than people without the variants and had a 50 per cent lower risk of type 2 diabetes and heart disease.

5.5 pounds doesn't seem to be enough to reduce disease risk by 50%. Maybe this gene has a direct impact on the heart and blood sugar with weight loss just being a side effect.

[Sirius Lee]

5.5 pounds doesn't seem to be enough to reduce disease risk by 50%.

That's what I put on every Winter, and shed by May, so I guess it's a wash.

[Red Badger]

were on average...............some more, some less..............

[wally_bert]

I like X-Minus One and Dim-X and will look it up.

[mlo]

"Scientists at Cambridge University say drugs to keep people slim are now a possibility after they identified the handful of genetic factors that prevent overeating."

No, that's not what they said.

They said they found an association between certain genetic factors and outcomes like obesity. It's the reporter that substituted "overeating" for "obesity".

[2nd Amendment]

need a gene transplant for Rosie and Nadler!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Red Badger. I can tell right now, I don't have that gene.