"It's Genetic" No Longer The Safe Words For The Obese

Ma'am, is that another fanny pack under your waist line?

Come across a rotund person whose ass cheeks are swan diving off the side of a chair in McDonald’s and they’ll tell you that they are fat because its in their genes. As a supporter of genetic theory and evolutionary biology, I had to bite my tongue and only silently judge those people. But now I can start pointing and laughing at those fat asses wealthy enough to buy healthy food but who eat bags of Funions and put the “ex” in exercise.

Academics found that people could work off around 40 per cent of the extra weight that “fat genes” laid on them by exercising. Although some people do have a predisposition to be overweight or even obese, scientists at the Medical Research Council’s Epidemiology Unit in Cambridge discovered that having an active lifestyle could go a long way to countering a person’s genetic inheritance.

I can almost hear the screams of anger and the Hostess Cupcakes hitting the floor.

Dr Ruth Loos from the MRC, who led the study, said: “Our research proves that even those who have the highest risk of obesity from their genes can improve their health by taking some form of daily physical activity.”

Picking up that Hostess Cupcake does not count, Denise!