Genes boost fast food weight gain
date:Jan 09, 2013



Perhaps know people who can eat hamburgers and milkshakes every day without gaining weight, but a single bag of French fries shows up on your hips immediately.

The difference could be in your genes.

In a new study, researchers raised about 800 mice for the first eight weeks of their lives on a nutritious chow that derived just six percent of its calories from fat. For the next eight weeks, mice were given high-fat, high-sugar food that mimicked a fast-food diet, with 32 percent of its calor
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