New Gene Discovery Links Obesity To The Brain

More crap research.

"A variation in a gene that is active in the central nervous system is associated with increased risk for obesity, according to an international study in which Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University played a major role. The research adds to evidence that genes influence appetite and that the brain plays a key role in obesity."

This is true.

The "most" key role the brain plays in obesity, is the role of stupid.

"Dr. Kaplan and his U.S. and European colleagues found that people who have inherited the gene variant NRXN3 have a 10-15 percent increased risk of being obese compared with people who do not have the variant...

After analyzing more than two million regions of the human genome, the researchers found that the NRXN3 gene variant previously associated with alcohol dependence, cocaine addiction, and illegal substance abuse also predicts the tendency to become obese. Altogether, researchers found the gene variant in 20 percent of the people studied."

So this alleged connection affects a mere fraction of a mere fraction the stupid fat.

"'Someday we may be able to incorporate several obesity genes into a genetic test to identify people at risk of becoming obese and alert them to the need to watch their diet and to exercise,' Dr. Kaplan said."

Well, there is a winning strategy seeing as how diet and exercise advice has worked so well heretofore.

Good thinking, people from Einstein.