Family Fitness
Think there's no point in exercising because obesity runs in your family? Not so fast. New research from Cambridge, England, shows exercise can reduce the effects of the "obesity gene" in adults.
About three-quarters of Europeans and North Americans carry the "fat mass and obesity associated" (FTO) gene that is linked to weight gain and possible obesity. But the study, looking at data from 218,000 people with the gene, found those who exercised regularly were about 30% less likely to be obese than those who didn't work out. In other words genes are not destiny.
Posted by:Georgie
Credit:PLoS Medicine/Web MD
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