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Is There a Difference Between Type 2 Diabetes and Obesity?
Genetics does not have as good an answer about why different people eat differently, aside from cultural differences at the moment. The reason behind that is because it's very difficult to accurately determine what someone has eaten in order to do genetics. But then you then begin to look at body shape. That does matter as well. Why are African Americans, for example, more likely to end up with cardiovascular heart disease, okay? Less likely with diabetes. Whereas why are Indians, you know more? And there we have genetics. What about in terms of this obese gene?