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Obesity, Fat & Genes

Leaps in genetics are opening doors for obesity researchers around the world. In October 2000, researchers at Harvard University published a paper identifying two genes that control the development of fat tissues in mice.

Earlier that year, scientists at the University of Michigan published a paper showing that a protein named Wnt-10b acted as a switch for controlling the transition of pre-fat cells into fat cells in mice.

Dr. Sorisky's research is also looking at samples of fat, taken from consenting surgical patients, and whether they behave differently depending on the part of the body they are taken from.

This derives from the prevailing wisdom that apple-shaped people, those with bulges around the stomach, like the typical beer gut, are at greater health risk than pear-shaped people, those with fat concentrated on the hips and thighs.

It isn't perfectly clear why this is so.

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Obesity is now the "trillion dollar disease". This reflects the social costs of obesity, in health and lost production, as well as the weight loss drug profits that might be made for any pharmaceutical company that finds a drug-cure for obesity. The search for viable weight loss medications continues, although pharmaceutical weight loss products still have significant side effects.

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