When an ‘obesity gene’ was discovered by scientists ten years ago, I remember thinking to myself (while munching on a Hobnob probably): ‘Oh yeah, I’ve definitely got that.’It all made sense. Why else was I piling on the weight and finding it impossible to shift it permanently? Why else did every diet I started on January 1 seem doomed to failure? All of us carry the fat mass and obesity-associated (FTO) gene — but around 45 per cent of people in Britain carry a variation which makes them more prone to obesity. Little wonder, then, that it has been nicknamed the ‘fatso’ gene.
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