Link to loosing weight

In the July 2010 issue of Genetic researchers have found that genes interacting with a person ability to diet with the help of fruit flies. They determined that the there is a link between body weight and a person’s ability to loose weigh; it helps explain why some diets work better for some people than others. Scientists studied 146 different genetic lines of fruit flies. They were each fed four different diets. These diets included a nutritionally balanced, a low calorie, a high sugar, and a high fat diet. Researchers then measured the difference of metabolic characteristics in each group.  Some flies within the genetic lines tested were highly sensitive to their diets. They showed dramatic changes in body weight. This created a distinction between the metabolic traits that are determined by genetics alone as well as by diet alone. The results of this experiment showed that dieting made little to no difference to the ability to gain, loose, or maintain body weight. This study strongly suggests that some individuals can benefits from altering their dietary habits while other has no ability to change due to their genes.