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Dr
MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge Metabolic Research Labs
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Schedule
Tuesday, November 2, 2021
3:00 PM Europe/London
Recording provided by the organiser.
Domain
NeuroscienceHost
Cambridge Neuro
Duration
70 minutes
It is clear that the cause of obesity is a result of eating more than you burn. It is physics. What is more complex to answer is why some people eat more than others? Differences in our genetic make-up mean some of us are slightly more hungry all the time and so eat more than others. We now know that the genetics of body-weight, on which obesity sits on one end of the spectrum, is in actuality the genetics of appetite control. In contrast to the prevailing view, body-weight is not a choice. People who are obese are not bad or lazy; rather, they are fighting their biology.
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