{"id":2216,"date":"2025-03-07T13:16:22","date_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:16:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/fat-gene-found-in-dogs-and-humans\/"},"modified":"2025-03-07T13:16:23","modified_gmt":"2025-03-07T13:16:23","slug":"fat-gene-found-in-dogs-and-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/07\/fat-gene-found-in-dogs-and-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Fat gene found in dogs and humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-03-07 13:16:22<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>A fat gene has been found in humans and dogs.<BR><br \/>\nPooches who are constantly hungry and prone to being overweight share biological traits with humans who have the same attitude when it comes to food.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Eleanor Raffan, study leader and a researcher in the University of Cambridge\u2019s Department of Physiology, Development and Neuroscience said: &#8220;Studying the dogs showed us something really powerful: owners of slim dogs are not morally superior. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;The same is true of slim people. If you have a high genetic risk of obesity, then when there\u2019s lots of food available you\u2019re prone to overeating and gaining weight unless you put a huge effort into not doing so.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;By studying dogs, we could measure their desire for food separately to the control owners exerted over their dog\u2019s diet and exercise. <BR><br \/>\n&#8220;In human studies, it\u2019s harder to study how genetically driven appetite requires greater willpower to remain slim, as both are affecting the one person.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-03-07 13:16:22 A fat gene has been found in humans and dogs. Pooches who are constantly hungry and prone to being overweight share biological traits with humans who have the&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2217,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2218,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2216\/revisions\/2218"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}