Health and Nutrition Letter

Looking for the Genetic Key to Weight Gain

June 2005

Abstract

Why can some people seemingly eat all they want and not gain weight, while others say they get fat “just looking at food”? The difference, at least among women, may be genetic—and Tufts researchers are one step closer to understanding the genetic gatekeeper that regulates body weight.

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