The Genetic Predisposition to Obesity

A quarter to a third of populations living in a western lifestyle environment become morbidly obese so they really struggle with their weight. They have a genetic predisposition but also the trigger of the environmental factors that cause their body to want to store weight. Your body can change its metabolism by about 700 kilocalories per day. This is just before you move your body, heating your heartbeat, breathing, building or repairing the cells. You go on this low calorie diet and after three or four weeks it's no longer ravenously hungry - there's no need to weigh yourself at all. So we don't do as much activity anymore and we've got like tasty, carb heavy, calorie heavy foods that