{"id":284,"date":"2007-04-13T12:01:07","date_gmt":"2007-04-13T11:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/?p=284"},"modified":"2008-04-15T12:16:43","modified_gmt":"2008-04-15T12:16:43","slug":"fat-gene-is-not-an-excuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/2007\/04\/13\/fat-gene-is-not-an-excuse\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Fat Gene&#8217; is not an excuse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img class=\"alignright\" src='\/blog\/wp-content\/obese.jpg' alt='Obese' \/>Apparently,<a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/health\/6547891.stm\"> researchers have identified a &#8216;fat gene&#8217;<\/a> which, if you have it, makes you prone to carrying more weight.<\/p>\n<p>As soon as this research comes out, breakfast TV drags up a host of clearly <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Obesity\">morbidly obese<\/a> people, with statements like &#8220;I always knew there was something stopping me losing weight&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Errr&#8230; hang on a minute. The research states that this particular gene is responsible for carrying an extra 6 and a half pounds, <strong>not six and a half stone!<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apparently, researchers have identified a &#8216;fat gene&#8217; which, if you have it, makes you prone to carrying more weight. As soon as this research comes out, breakfast TV drags up a host of clearly morbidly obese people, with statements like &#8220;I always knew there was something stopping me losing weight&#8221;. Errr&#8230; hang on a minute. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[36,16],"class_list":["post-284","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-bbc","tag-dodgy-reporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=284"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=284"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=284"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ianfitter.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=284"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}