Scientists identify obesity gene: Hardwired for fat, or are we?

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Some brilliant scientists have identified several fat genes! yeah, now we have a
legitimate excuse to be overweight! I found this artilce that’s full of probably factual information but seriously folks I’m a true believer that for the most of us our weight is under our control or at least until it becomes dangerously out of control at which point medical care and direction should be sought. Out of every overweight person that is used in these focus groups there were alot of individual choices made and many different levels of will power. How many of the super athletic people that we look up have this obestiy gene but no one would ever know it because they have made the decision to get and keep fit. There are times that I ” fall off the health wagon” and about 10 minutes later I think to myself “Dang, it wasn’t worth it, now I gotta work this off” Impulse eating, just like impulse shopping is usually followed by regret.
The scientist are calling the gene “PCSK1″ or as the rest of us non-scientific folk like to call it “LAZY1″ come on folks let’s get healthy together!
-Aaron
Read article here
(We are fully aware that some individuals have a legitimate reason for being overweight, and for those individuals it is truly out of their control)

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