Researchers are suggesting that those who have inherited
obesity genes, may be more likely to become obese if they drink a large amount of sugary beverages. To come to this conclusion, scientists analyzed the genetic profiles of 33,000 men and women. According to Lu Qi, assistant professor in the nutrition department at the Harvard School of Public Health, "The risk of becoming obese as a result of carrying a high dose of obesity genes was more than twice as great in the group with the highest intake of sugary beverages as it was for the lowest intake group." Basically, high consumption of sugary drinks greatly increased the genetic risk of becoming obese. (It is worth noting that health, exercise level, and eating habits were taken into consideration.) The results of this study will be published in the
New England Journal of Medicine on September 21, 2012.
I would think that sugary drinks put everyone at a higher risk for obesity, whether they carry obesity genes or not. I would like to know how they can determine when obesity is caused by genetics along with sugary drinks rather than just the genetics alone. Either way, it is nice to know that those who are genetically predisposed to obesity can lessen their chance of becoming obese by living a healthy lifestyle.
This is very interesting. I knew that obesity could be genetic but i didnt know that people could lessen their chances of becoming obese. It will be interesting to see if further research on this topic becomes available.
ReplyDeleteDoesn't sugary drinks increases everyone chance of becoming more obesed whether the person is or not more genetically prone to being obese? They should comment on how genetically obeses people that are not diabetics, should drink artifical sweetners. Though you would think that this is cutting back on calories and would help them lose weght but your body doesn't know the difference between artifical and regular sugar and will still store it into fat regardless so why not have regular sugar?
ReplyDeletesorry not drink artifical sweetners.
ReplyDeleteI completely agree with your opinion on this article. If they did not directly specify what it was about the "sugary beverages" that made obesity more prevalent, then I would wonder what sugar in general would not have an effect on obesity genes? Or could it be that something such as sodas increase the risk because of a combination of carbonation and sugar? This article seemed too vague for such a certain conclusion to be reached and I definitely think scientists should have done more research on this topic before releasing such a statement.
ReplyDeleteDoesn’t sugary drinks increases everyone chance of becoming more obesed whether the person is or not more genetically prone to being obese? They should comment on how genetically obeses people that are not diabetics, should not drink artifical sweetners. Though you would think that this is cutting back on calories and would help them lose weght but your body doesn’t know the difference between artifical and regular sugar and will still store it into fat regardless so why not have regular sugar?
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