Obesity Gene Effect Cancelled Out By Doing Exercise
Now here's a reason to get up and get active in the New Year.
A new bit of research finds that even if you have the obesity gene all is not lost, you can fight back by doing exercise.
Being active is able to minimize the effects from the so-called "fat mass and obesity associated" (FTO for short) obesity gene.
Earlier work has found that almost 74% of all U.
S.
adults who are of European ancestry carry a genetic variation of the Fat gene with potential side effects including weight gain...
putting too many of us on the slippery slope of obesity.
For the study, the team examined data on an impressively sized sample of over 218,000 adults in order to be sure the gene does raise the risk of becoming obese.
They saw that indeed it did, but that adults who exercised as a regular part of their routine had a 33% lower risk of being obese when compared to more sedentary adults.
The take home message, according to experts, is that even if something is wired into your genetic code, you can do something to manage the effect it will have on you...
and your future health.
There are steps you can take, today and every day that will keep this nasty gene from having its way and leaving you dangerously heavy and at higher risk for disease.
Rather than giving in to your "fate", experts encourage you to fight even harder, because you can beat the genetics.
Regular exercise is the best thing you can do for yourself.
Other experts who work in the genetics of obesity have discovered that those who carry the FTO gene have cravings which adds around 200 more calories each day.
It's all about the consumption of calories not how the body handles those calories, so it makes sense that offsetting the extra intake, say by a 2 mile walk, can have quite an impact.
This latest work might also help in the development of medications to block the impact the FTO gene has, though testing people for the gene is still rather controversial.
In an accompanying editorial published along with the research is was suggested that testing for genetics associated with obesity doesn't change the advice you'd give to an obese patient.
Eat a healthy, well balanced diet and exercise on a daily basis - this is good advice to anyone, regardless of genes.
The encouraging news in all of this is that, yet again, we see plainly the value of lifestyle choices when it comes to our own health and overcoming things like the obesity gene.
We can, and do, have control - we are not at the mercy of our genetics.
While not smoking is one of the most important choices we make in order to keep both lungs and heart healthy, eating a balanced, natural diet and doing exercise regularly are equally important.
These choices help us avoid packing on the pounds and upping the chances of dangerous, life-altering conditions like diabetes, stroke, heart disease and cancer.
A new bit of research finds that even if you have the obesity gene all is not lost, you can fight back by doing exercise.
Being active is able to minimize the effects from the so-called "fat mass and obesity associated" (FTO for short) obesity gene.
Earlier work has found that almost 74% of all U.
S.
adults who are of European ancestry carry a genetic variation of the Fat gene with potential side effects including weight gain...
putting too many of us on the slippery slope of obesity.
For the study, the team examined data on an impressively sized sample of over 218,000 adults in order to be sure the gene does raise the risk of becoming obese.
They saw that indeed it did, but that adults who exercised as a regular part of their routine had a 33% lower risk of being obese when compared to more sedentary adults.
The take home message, according to experts, is that even if something is wired into your genetic code, you can do something to manage the effect it will have on you...
and your future health.
There are steps you can take, today and every day that will keep this nasty gene from having its way and leaving you dangerously heavy and at higher risk for disease.
Rather than giving in to your "fate", experts encourage you to fight even harder, because you can beat the genetics.
Regular exercise is the best thing you can do for yourself.
Other experts who work in the genetics of obesity have discovered that those who carry the FTO gene have cravings which adds around 200 more calories each day.
It's all about the consumption of calories not how the body handles those calories, so it makes sense that offsetting the extra intake, say by a 2 mile walk, can have quite an impact.
This latest work might also help in the development of medications to block the impact the FTO gene has, though testing people for the gene is still rather controversial.
In an accompanying editorial published along with the research is was suggested that testing for genetics associated with obesity doesn't change the advice you'd give to an obese patient.
Eat a healthy, well balanced diet and exercise on a daily basis - this is good advice to anyone, regardless of genes.
The encouraging news in all of this is that, yet again, we see plainly the value of lifestyle choices when it comes to our own health and overcoming things like the obesity gene.
We can, and do, have control - we are not at the mercy of our genetics.
While not smoking is one of the most important choices we make in order to keep both lungs and heart healthy, eating a balanced, natural diet and doing exercise regularly are equally important.
These choices help us avoid packing on the pounds and upping the chances of dangerous, life-altering conditions like diabetes, stroke, heart disease and cancer.
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