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Obesity "Master switch" found
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According Yahoo news, scientists have found the gene that is linked to family obesity and diseases such as heart disease and diabetes.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110515/lf_nm_life/us_obesity_genes
This could change heart medicine as we know it. Perhaps cut down on heart problems for the next generation.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20110515/lf_nm_life/us_obesity_genes
This could change heart medicine as we know it. Perhaps cut down on heart problems for the next generation.
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Edit: got it, yea Robman's pretty much got it
A while back I read about some study that found a link between a creature having fur and a... spiked penis. The controls for a spiked penis on the male of the species also resulted in fur.
edit: randomly googled link
edit edit: ok, it wasn't fur, but close enough.
Won't someone please think of the pocupenis chimp children?
On topic (more so): Alot of science blogs and sites have very sensational article titles, and after you click thinking the cure for (whatever) is at last upon us, no, it's not even close.
Science blogging is fundamentally a niche market for a niche audience. In order to drive up general views, we get "SCIENTISTS FIND FAT GENE" rather then "RK229 PLASMID TRANSFECTED SPRAGUE-DAWLEY RATS DEVELOP LESS ADIPOSE TISSUE UNDER STANDARD DIET CONDITIONS COMPARED TO CONTROLS"
edit: details in the above paragraph are illustrative of the issue, not the paper in question
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Only your middle penis should be spiked, why do you ask?
I have a feeling this discovery is going to end up with that one.
What about the smallpox and rinderpest vaccines?
I was expecting someone to say, "What about werewolves?" but yeah okay.
Often, it's a valid piece of primary research, but the newspapers generally make it seem like a big thing, when science is more a slow progression.
The NHS has a pretty good website in which newspaper articles are assessed on the validity of their statements, it's generally quite interesting. Link
Explaination: When studying history of medicine, these are three Rennaisance doctors we study. Vesalius and Harvey added to the knowledge of anatomy, Harvey in particular learning about the heart and the circulatory system. This knowledge is undoubtedly useful in our time, but it didn't have much of an impact at the time. Pare was a surgeon who devised a number of measures to improve surgical survival rates, so his knowledge was much more immediately applicable.
In conclusion, this information will be useful, but not yet, and not for the reason of a magic bullet.
This sounds like a gene that controls the way fat is handled in the body once it's consumed and nothing to do with getting fat people to control themselves and put down the cake.
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It's more a hypothetical way to avoid some of the negative health consequences of obesity, than avoiding obesity itself.
But as Bowen said, genetics isn't that simple.
Canada, as well as parts of Europe(especially in the north) and Japan will be full of healthier people than places like the U.S. which has great healthcare, if you're rich, while these other places attempt to offer it to most of the population. That is, if it actually happened like you suggested.
Sure its good knowledge for when we do...but I think nanites need to be a realistic medical tool before this will help.
Anyway, it's more likely a research group trying to get some publicity and therefore a better chance of getting more funding that anything dramatic. Fortunately there's still eating properly, or if that's proving difficult, surgery.
And while there may be a valid protein target arising from this gene, it's unlikely that any reasonable therapy will be developed.
Also the fail rate for anti-obesity drugs is almost as high as for new antibiotics, which is remarkable.
No kidding. We have similar ways to prevent unwanted pregnancies and STDs.
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People only use condoms because aids and babies are worse.
99% of the time, it works 50% of the time.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
And of course, that's not looking at whether or not a loss of 10% of body weight puts you in a normal weight range. If you go from 30 to 27 on the BMI, you're still overweight.
And you can't just hand-wave away compliance issues because (1) very few weight-loss studies actually track compliance separately from results, so you can't actually say that those who failed were non-compliant and (2) compliance in weight-loss isn't as simple as taking a pill every day.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
Fast food is cheaper and far more convenient than most things, and some people just really enjoy that deep-fried taste. Eating healthy can be very expensive or very time consuming if it's being prepared from scratch, and the prevalence of fast food joints doesn't make it any easier. I'm not saying you're wrong and that it's impossible to eat healthy - of course it isn't - but to make a blanket statement that healthy food is cheaper and tastes better overall than unhealthy food isn't true. I remember checking out that Spent game a few months back - it was the one where you had to see if you could live in poverty for a month - and one of your options was either a $6 salad or a $1 burger. Sometimes people need to decide between counting pennies and counting calories.
Hence surgery.
Right. People will say "anybody can lose weight" and that's strictly true, but it's also largely irrelevant. Losing weight isn't the goal, maintaining a target weight is the goal. If you look at people who are very overweight over a long period of time, it is exceedingly rare for very overweight people to attain and maintain a normal weight.
That said, even with surgery, most of the time physicians will want to see some weight loss first. This is largely because after any kind of bariatric surgery, the patient will be required to adhere to a special diet. (Some surgeries are stricter than others regarding what and when and how much you can eat after the surgery.) You need to prove that you can actually control your own food intake before it's safe to do surgery.
the "no true scotch man" fallacy.
That is because those articles cost a lot of money.
And, well, they aren't for everyone to read.
Great now that you have a posted a link to a story identical to the one found in the OP you can read the rest of the topic now?
Sorry, had to do it.
Biologically, some people are more predisposed to lifestyles and tastes that deter obesity, but obesity by and large is environmental and voluntary.
A lot of that, though, can be chalked up to parenting that always taught us to "clean our plates" before dessert, and an FDA that conspired with Ag lobbies to flood the market with cheap carbs while lying to the public about how good it was for us.
You're not. Anytime I read a link to a science blog, I inevitable just Google the authors' names and hope that my old school's journal cataloging archive is still laughably open and relatively updated.