Are our genes to blame when our jeans don’t fit?

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• Dr Giles Yeo, Wolfson College and Principal Research Associate, Metabolic Research Laboratories and MRC Metabolic Diseases Unit, University of Cambridge
• Wednesday 24 January 2018, 13:00-14:00
• Combination Room, Wolfson College.

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While the obesity epidemic is a contemporary problem, undoubtedly due to changes in our lifestyle and in the types of food we eat, differences in our genetic make-up mean some of us eat more than others. Obese people are not bad and lazy, they are fighting their biology. Society has to accept this before we can successfully tackle this largest of public health problems.

This talk is part of the Wolfson College Lunchtime Seminar Series series.

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