This is one more for reason for all the lazy bums out there to hang up their gym boots and get behind the idiot box with munchies. Staying fit and exercising regularly is the need of the minute, and the more we hear about obesity being genetic, the obese...

It seems that what we are is simply what our genes want us to be. While obesity is due to a complex genetic network, may may overeating and temptation to eat more is also dictated by particular genes.