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1. Binge eating can be blamed on a defective gene

[My Final Spider]

I can't even make a stupid joke about this.

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[Goshawk]

Eh, doesn't look like a joke to me. Am I missing something?

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/20/1047749878466.html
Binge eating can be blamed on a defective gene
March 21 2003
By Delthia Ricks
New York

Binge eating can be traced to a gene, researchers say, in a sharp departure from the long-accepted idea that it is due to a psychological disturbance.

The new analysis is one of two reports in the New England Journal of Medicine, published today, on severe obesity and genetic defects in the appetite-regulating gene, the mela-nocortin-4 receptor (MC4R), which makes a protein involved in appetite function in the brain.

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Believed to be the most common eating disorder, bingeing affects about 4 million people in the United States, according to the National Institutes of Health. And although binge eaters are often severely overweight, some are not, doctors say. The study examined 469 severely obese white adults and found bingeing was most common in the 5 per cent bearing the genetic mistake.

[a_unique_person]

Originally posted by Goshawk
Eh, doesn't look like a joke to me. Am I missing something?

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/20/1047749878466.html


I wasn't commenting on the article itself. I just would have thought that there was something more newsworthy than another article about fat at the moment.