According to a new study, [you may want to eat lots of cheese] not just because you’re a glutton, it could in fact all be down to your DNA.
Scientists at the University of Cambridge have found that those with a gene already linked to obesity have a predisposition for high-fat foods, but less of a preference for high-sugar foods. The gene in question is called MC4R and is thought to affect about one in every 1,000 people.
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Researchers found that while there was no real difference in the amount eaten between the individuals, the 14 people with MC4R unknowingly ate a significantly higher proportion of the high-fat korma; 95% more than the lean participants and 65% more than those with obesity.
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Professor Sadaf Farooqi, neuroscientist and co-author of the study [stated]: “People couldn’t tell the food apart and that was the key thing. They [participants with the MC4R defect] still ate a lot more of the high fat and a lot less of the high sugar which suggests that the brain has ways of picking up levels of nutrients.”
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