Your thin friends can scarf down carbs? It may be their genes

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No big surprise, but a new genetic study has confirmed why some people can eat whatever they like and still stay thin. It is not because they have better will power. It’s because they inherited lucky genes. In the world’s largest genome-wide association study of the inheritability of body weight to date, researchers from the UK and the US compared the genomes of 1,622 naturally thin people, 1,985 severely obese people and 10,433 normal controls. The thin individuals all had BMIs less than 18 — which is considered underweight — but were healthy with no eating disorders or other medical conditions. The study, called STILTS (Study Into Lean and Thin Subjects) wondered whether there would be any genetic overlap between the genes found for obesity or thinness. PLOS Genetics: Genetic architecture of human thinness compared to severe obesity Many previous studies have shown a strong genetic susceptibility to obesity, with currently more than 250 genes already identified. The...
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