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The Weight Loss Scientist: You've Been LIED To About Calories, Dieting & Losing Weight: Giles Yeo

The Diary Of A CEO with Steven Bartlett

CHAPTER

The Obese Gene in Chapter Two

There are more than a thousand genes for body weight. Leptin is the gene that I'm talking about in chapter two with the obese. At 18 years old, if you carry a mutation in this MC4R gene, you are on average 18 kilos heavier,. 200,000 people in the UK, a million people in the U.S. will carry mutations in thisMC4R gene - making them more likely to end up with obesity.

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