MIT Researchers Discover "Metabolic Master Switch" To Control Obesity

New submitter ahbond writes: The meme of the chubby nerd alone in the basement may be a thing of the past. Well, at least the chubby part, if recent work at MIT pans out and we're able to use a biological "master switch" to "dial-in" a persons metabolic rate. “Obesity has traditionally been seen as the result of an imbalance between the amount of food we eat and how much we exercise, but this view ignores the contribution of genetics to each individual’s metabolism,” said senior author Manolis Kellis, a professor of computer science and a member of MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory and of the Broad Institute.

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Re:Queue the feminists...

[Anonymous Coward]

Never seen a fat feminist, but all of the Republicans I know are tremendous and stupid. Are they fat because they're stupid, or does being fat make you stupid? I don't know. Either way, Republicans are stupid. So stupid. Hearing them talk makes me want to die. To die. They repeat themselves and make everything about politics.

Re:Eating is Dopamine

[Lodlaiden]

If I wasn't so depressed about being an American, I wouldn't be eating all these cheetos while watching British sitcoms trying to find some form of light in my shallow excessive existence.