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So, whose opinion would you rather trusts on matters scientific? Scientists whose work is peer reviewed and based on objective evidence? Or a newspaper columnist who has written a diet book? According to new research carried out at University College London by the Health Behaviour Research Centre of the charity, Cancer Research UK, and published last week in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, there really is such a thing as a fat gene. Researchers who studied 5,000 sets of twins found that genetics has more of an influence on weight than upbringing, exercise and diet.
...I hate to blithely dismiss a whole swathe of scientific findings but I don’t believe a word of this. Fat gene, my foot. I've long wondered what purpose India Knight served. Now it's clear: she offers her readers an entire alternative universe. One based, that is, on utter nonsense.