Gene tags 'fuel obesity epidemic'

Crap.

"The obesity crisis could deepen as the womb chemicals of increasingly overweight mothers set their baby's future risk, say US scientists.

A study, in the International Journal of Obesity, showed mice genetically prone to obesity getting fatter generation by generation.

"Epigenetic" tags, which affect the function of our genes, may be responsible, they say."

The proof is the "cure."

"However, the researchers countered this effect in the mice through diet."

No matter the bogeyman, the "cure" will always be fewer Calories in than out.

Period.

And the only "gene tags fuel[ing] the obesity epidemic" are the tags that suggest that there is a genetic component at all.