Fat and Fate: The New Lifeline

                                                  Researchers that carried out the study tallied the results of dozens of studies about the effects of exercise on the so-called fat gene, which is suspected to increase the risk that carriers will be overweight or obese by 12 percent or more. The gene which is also referred to as “fat mass and obesity-associated” gene, or FTO gene was discovered several years ago and by most estimates, about 65 percent of people of European or African descent and perhaps 44 percent of Asians carry some version of the FTO gene.[read more]