Are your genes to blame when your jeans don’t fit?
Duration: 56 mins 56 secs
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| Description: | Join Dr Giles Yeo to explore our genetic differences and how our different responses to the environment affect obesity. |
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| Created: | 2018-10-25 13:47 |
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| Collection: | Alumni Festival 2018 |
| Publisher: | University of Cambridge |
| Copyright: | Isabel Ronaldson |
| Language: | eng (English) |
| Distribution: |
World
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| Explicit content: | No |
| Abstract: | The recent increase in obesity is due to dramatic changes in our environment over the past 50 years. However, not all of us are obese. Genetic differences mean we respond differently to the environment, allowing us to use genetics as a tool to understand the mechanisms underlying obesity.
Some of us are slightly hungrier all the time and so eat more than others. In contrast to the prevailing view, obese people are not bad and lazy; rather, they are fighting their biology. Society has to accept this, before we can form successful strategies to tackle this, the largest of public health problems. |
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