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In between watching the Weston-Super-Mare pier catching fire and the first lady to take control(temporarily) of Great Britain since Margaret Thatcher, I saw a brief report about the latest studies identifying a fat gene.
FTO is apparently the gene in the body that given a certain make up makes you more likely to be over weight. The thought being that your appetite is satisfied less easily so you’ll likely eat more than your body needs.
Hailed as a break through in the fight against obesity, no doubt with pharmaceutical companies falling over themselves to produce the “necessary” drugs to counter this genetic flaw, I can’t help wonder if we are still missing the point here…
Surely if we eat the right things in the first place our diets will be suppressed naturally. If we are feeding our kids junk food it is really clear that within 20 minutes they are going to want more anyway. Such is our modern diet that we are eating more energy dense foods with little or no nutritional value, this is probably more likely the cause of our growing(sic) obesity problems, and not a genetic flaw.
For the next few weeks, if you focus on eating clean and fresh produce and avoiding ALL processed foods and drinks then I am sure that extra few kilos will disappear substantially quicker than waiting for the latest miracle cure.
July 28th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Hello
! Yet again I tooooooootally agree with you 
. I have been really overweight all my life… just because I have not been eating right and have not really been looking to lose weight. Too many sugary, addi(c)tive and not nutritional “foods” :o) … my parents have been overweight as well by the time I was born but, yes, definitely everyone can lose fat percentage and even weight more easily and stay there when you are on a healthy, clean diet and you get your metabolism going by doing the right workouts. Am definitely aiming to integrate a healthy diet and fitness permanently into my lifestyle by now 
. I suppose there can be as many explanations to obesity as there are attempts and too commercial rules to dieting. We are all different and I or, better, my metabolism will always react differently to some food, stress, etc. than another person’s.
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You just cannot go wrong with a natural, clean diet and working out correctly, really proven logical workouts such as are on your programmes. It all gives me the optimism I will finally get there through a bit of nutritional responsibility and respect of myself and my body