Genetic risk for obesity grew stronger in ‘obesogenic’ environment

Wednesday, July 6, 2016 - 21:51 in Health & Medicine

Lending support to the idea that high-calorie diets, sedentariness and other aspects of the contemporary American lifestyle may be driving the obesity epidemic, UC San Francisco researchers have found that people who carry greater genetic risk for obesity were more likely to have a higher body mass index if they were born later in the […]

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