Physical Activity and Obesity Genes

Is obesity an inescapable genetic trait, or something that can be avoided with a healthy lifestyle.  We get some clues this week in an interview with Dr. Evadnie Rampersaud of the Miami Institute of Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine.
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Is Overweight or Obese a Health Risk - or Not?

This week I talk to Dr. Rachel Wildman about her recent article in the Archives of Internal Medicine reporting the research work of her and her colleagues into the relationship between obesity and cardiometabolic risk factors.  Some normal-weight people have a lot of cardiometabolic risk factors and some obese people don’t have a lot of cardiometabolic risk factors.  One of the things that stands out in her research is the role of exercise.
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