Is your weight determined by your genes?\u00a0 Somewhat — but a new study shows that what you drink can affect how those genes work.<\/p>\n
We all have a certain amount of genes that predispose us to gain weight. Some have more than others.\u00a0 These genes were handy in the times that food was scarce.\u00a0 If you had the ability to pack on the pounds during the good times, you would last longer in time of famine. (I personally would be hanging on while people dropped like flies around me!)\u00a0 The trouble is that in our society, the good times keep rolling on. There is no shortage of food. In fact, eating has become a recreation instead of a simple maintaining of life.<\/p>\n
So those life-saving genes have become a curse.\u00a0 Does that mean you have to be fat?\u00a0 No, it\u2019s just that for some of us it will take more effort.<\/p>\n
A new study presented recently at an obesity conference in San Antonio and published online by the New England Journal of Medicine<\/em> followed more than 33,000 Americans over decades.\u00a0 The study has proven one thing that makes a huge difference in whether people get fat or not.\u00a0 Sugary drinks.\u00a0 If people are predisposed to gain weight, those sodas will push them over the edge into obesity.<\/p>\n For every 10 risk genes for obesity a person has, the chance of obesity corresponds with the number of sugary drinks he regularly consumes.<\/p>\n We figured there might be a connection, given the fact that soda consumption and the obesity rate have both doubled since the 1970s in the U.S.\u00a0 The new study, which actually consisted of three separate studies run at the same time by three different groups, proved the correlation.<\/p>\n If you are struggling with weight that just won\u2019t come off, no matter how carefully you eat, maybe you need to think about what\u00a0 you are drinking.\u00a0 That cola might just be pushing your obesity button.<\/p>\n Eating to live and living for Christ,<\/p>\n Susan Jordan Brown<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Is your weight determined by your genes?\u00a0 Somewhat — but a new study shows that what you drink can affect how those genes work. We all have a certain amount of genes that predispose us to gain weight. Some have more than others.\u00a0 These genes were handy in the times that food was scarce.\u00a0 If…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":423,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[369,9],"tags":[579,210,217,578],"class_list":["post-1881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-clinical-studies","category-eating-plan","tag-genes","tag-obesity","tag-soda","tag-sugary-drinks"],"yoast_head":"\n