Obesity – Genes or Lifestyle?
An obese child has a 37 percent chance of becoming an obese adult if both parents are slim. But if at least one parent is overweight, the child’s chance of becoming an obese adult nearly doubles to 71 percent.
Whether this is the result of inherited genes, an “inherited” fat-promoting lifestyle, or some combination of the two remains to be proven.
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
