Previously one of our reporters at the Ukmedix newsroom wrote an article on the fact that scientists had located a gene in some obese people that they said could be the cause of their obesity. Apparently about 1% of obese people could claim therefore that they were obese through no real fault of their own but due to an accident of nature.

New research however that has just been published in the New England Journal of Medicine claims that this is not the reality and that there are absolutely no findings whatsoever that there is such a thing as a ‘fat gene.

The quest to find a fat gene is motivated by a huge weight loss industry that would pay billions of pounds to be able to have a target for new drugs that would specifically stop people putting on weight but for the meantime other remedies will have to be thought up.

In this study around three hundred males and females who had suffered from chronic obesity at a very young age were examined and questioned but they did not appear to have any particular gene or DNA structure that marked them out as different from other normal weight people.

Many overweight and obese people claim that they are the way they are not due to any fault of theirs and that they have a genetic reason for all their weight issues and problems but this is not the case according to the new research. The scientists however have still not given up and will be trying to see if they can find other probable gene related reason for being obese.

In the meantime we advise dieters and obese people not to blame their genetic structure for being obese but to get on a proper eating plan and to do some form of exercise. In extreme cases where obesity is an ongoing problem some weight loss drugs like Acomplia, Reductil and Xenical may help along with a low calorie diet.