Archive for the 'FTO' Category
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.
