Exercise Helps Teens Overcome 'Obesity Gene'

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The exercise is best way to get rid of obesity. A minimun hour of physical exercise for child and teen help them to burn the fats from body. Nowdays the teen are more obesed to junk food they does not intake the healthy food with contain fibre and calcium and their routinue habbit does not contain any games or physical activity which burn their fats.
http://www.fightobesity.net/obesity-in-teens.html

Jehnavi of FL 1:05AM October 13, 2010

Some individuals smoke and don't succumb to lung cancer. Some individuals eat an improper diet, say high-fat or low in an essential nutrient, and don't come down with a metabolic disease (cardiovascular, type 2 diabetes or obesity e.g.). Some people exercise and see little to no benefit. Why? It often is because of either environmental factors - like sleep, alcohol use, diet, exercise, tobacco use, latitude of home city (day-length, seasonality), altitude of home city (oxygen tension) - and genetic variation.
We are all different from one another from a genetic standpoint. Even identical twins have important genetic differences. Many points of genetic variation interact with or respond to these environmental factors. Thus, the combination of the right amount of exercise (right for that individual) and certain genetic variants, or alleles, may produce a health benefit or risk as the case may be. In other words, only when a given threshold is passed does the effect of the genetic variant exhibit itself.

GxE of MA 1:12PM April 12, 2010

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Greg of IL 5:56PM April 06, 2010

There has been a reason that P.E. was a part of every school's curriculum as far back as the late 1800's. People need to move, and healthy, active bodies as children contribute to healthy, active adults. It's too bad that P.E. has been cut in many schools. Now I'm not talking sports, you know. I'm talking good ol' P.E.

Catherinew of WA 12:21AM April 06, 2010

I was always afraid I would become as over-weight as my mother. This article somewhat confirms those fears, but I agree with some of the other posters as well--you can't have kids eating pure junk every day in front of the TV and expect them to exude a picture of health.
Recently, I have come to discover that my weight has reached an all-time high. Previous diet attempt have failed and the only other time in my life that I have managed to successfully lose weight was while going through an acrimonious divorce. I decided to try something new to keep myelf on track. I started a blog which tracks my progress on a 30-day weight loss challenge. The purpose is to make myself accountable by publicly posting my daily progress:
http://challenge30days.blogspot.com/
My hope is that I will be compelled to stay on track and that others will help keep me motivated. I also want to help others by telling them what is working and what isn't.

My Challenge of OR 12:05AM April 06, 2010

What Science does is to CONFIRM what we know bringing us facts of why it happens.
If scientists one day claiming: "research shows that the sky is blue", most of the laypeople would say it is a pointless research.
But for some researchers will find the details of its findings useful, like knowing exactly the wavelength of the electromagnetic spectrum of the blue hue, etc...
The function of science is to understand WHY stuff works and HOW. For sciencr there are no obvious question, there is no stupid questions, there are only questions that hasn't been proved and hasn't been explained.

daniel k of NY 11:41PM April 05, 2010

you're missing the point. The lesson here is that there's tons of research money to be had doing pointless research. Who's with me, let's research if eating nothing but mcdonalds for a month while not exercising increases the risk of the obesity gene, we could make a documentary with the research money XD

Dan of CA 9:51PM April 05, 2010

I continue to be amazed that science is seriously spending this amount of money on research for an "obesity" gene... really? You mean exercise and proper nutrition is effective in fighting the obesity gene, really? You don't say??? Are we really this stupid that we can't take responsibility for a problem that we create every time we drive through the fast food drivethrough window or let our kids suck down soda with crap in it instead of water and non-sugar (or worse yet, high fructose corn syrup) laden drinks? If a kid eats well over 3000 calories a meal three times a day and then does nothing but play video games or watch TV, it's a pretty safe bet they will become obese, gene or no gene.

AreYouKiddingMe of NV 8:25PM April 05, 2010

First off, to the couple of commentators that went off-topic from the article, what's wrong with you?
That said, how about we keep the comments on point with what the article talked about. If you actually read the thing rather than ranting about nonsense, then you would have noticed that the hour of exercise a day made all of a big difference of 0.65 BMI point. WOW. That's...SO not a big difference. I was expecting something on the order of those who didn't exercise would be lots of BMI points higher than those who didn't. Really? 0.65? That's pathetic is what that is.
This is a textbook case of a statistically significant result because of the large number of participants that in fact translates to nothing in the real world.

Robert of MA 7:58PM April 05, 2010

It almost seems as if they are spending a lot of money trying to find excuses for people to use to avoid moving around. I realize for some there seems to be no clear answer, and perhaps that's the motivation. Still, frequent reminders that exercise and a good diet are the answer will do more good than anything else. It's as simple as calories in and calories out when you get down to it. Types of calories do matter, but if you eat as close to whole foods as possible, avoid stuffing yourself every time you sit down to eat, and take a long walk everyday, you'll be OK. It's no great mystery.

Harry of CA 6:59PM April 05, 2010