Friday, April 09, 2010

Fat Genes

You may have a family history of obesity, but it's not inevitable that you or your children will be obese:

Performance of an hour or more of physical activity per day by adolescents is associated with control of body weight even among those who are genetically predisposed to obesity, according to a report in the April 2010 issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.