{"id":215717376,"date":"2011-11-02T17:29:36","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T17:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=215717376"},"modified":"2011-11-02T17:29:36","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T17:29:36","slug":"exercise-can-overpower-the-obesity-gene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=215717376","title":{"rendered":"Exercise Can Overpower the &#8216;Obesity Gene&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study Shows Physical Activity Can Reduce the Effects of a Genetic Predisposition for Obesity<br \/>\nBy Denise Mann &#8211; Web MD<br \/>\nNov. 2, 2011 &#8212; Obesity may be in your genes, but that is no excuse not to exercise.<br \/>\nIn fact, physical activity can reduce the effects of the &#8216;fat mass and obesity-associated&#8217; (FTO) or obesity gene in adults.<br \/>\nPrevious research has shown that about 74% of all people in the U.S. with European ancestry have a genetic variation associated with the FTO gene that can lead to weight gain that raises the risk for becoming obese.<br \/>\nAccording to the study,  the obesity-causing effects of the obesity gene are weakened by 30% when adults are physically active.<br \/>\nThe study is published in PLoS Medicine.<br \/>\n&#8230;<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/news\/20111102\/exercise-can-overpower-the-obesity-gene\">https:\/\/www.webmd.com\/diet\/news\/20111102\/exercise-can-overpower-the-obesity-gene<\/a>oldId.2011110217293690<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study Shows Physical Activity Can Reduce the Effects of a Genetic Predisposition for Obesity By Denise Mann &#8211; Web MD Nov. 2, 2011 &#8212; Obesity may be in your genes, but that is no excuse not to exercise. In fact, physical activity can reduce the effects of the &#8216;fat mass and obesity-associated&#8217; (FTO) or obesity &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/?p=215717376\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Exercise Can Overpower the &#8216;Obesity Gene&#8217;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215717376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biking-elsewhere"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215717376","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=215717376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215717376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215717376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215717376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.baltimorespokes.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215717376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}