People Carrying Obesity Genes May Tend To Gain More Weight If They Do Not Work Out Or Do Not Get Enough Sleep

“People carrying so-called ‘obesity’ genes tend to gain more weight if they don’t work out or don’t get enough sleep,” researchers found after tracking “physical activity and sleep patterns for about 85,000 people in England, aged 40 to 70,” then computing “a genetic risk score for each person based on 76 common variants known to be associated with increased risk for obesity.” The findings were presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Human Genetics. https://consumer.healthday.com/vitamins-and-nutrition-information-27/obesity-health-news-505/when-it-comes-to-obesity-genes-just-partly-to-blame-727739.html