EVER wondered why you pile on the kilos while others can eat what they like and stay slim? It could be because you have an altered version of a gene called FTO.
Around half of white Europeans have one altered copy of FTO, which increases the risk of obesity by 30 per cent, while a further 16 per cent hold two altered copies, which raises the risk by 70 per cent.
Mark McCarthy at the University of Oxford and his colleagues made the discovery after analysing the DNA and physical health of 39,000 white people in the UK and…
