Tag: genes

How To Live Forever (your individual mileage may vary)

I read a very silly study conclusion today. Ready?  Lifestyle doesn’t matter. If you want to live a long healthy life, you only need to have the genes of the Ashkenazi Jews. There. Problem solved. This work, published this week in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society involved 477 Ashkenazi Jews aged...

With Obesity, We Have A PR Problem (Personal Responsibility, that is)

From Reuters:  Scientists have found that a gene linked to diabetes and cholesterol is a “master switch” that controls other genes found in fat in the body, and say it should help in the search for treatments for obesity-related diseases.From Will:Common sense has discovered that obesity is self-inflicted, and...

Morning Thoughts on Obesity Help

LISTEN: Is it genes or experience, nature or nurture, yin or yang, blah or blah? Just a few morning thoughts on my recent event with Obesity Help out in New York. Click here is the audio recording. For more information: Click here to visit Will Clower’s website....

Genetically Modified ANIMALS for Food

You’re never going to believe this (here’s the article). You know how genetic engineers can take recombinant DNA of one plant, and splice it into another, and give us GMO corn? And, weirder still, they can even put fish genes into our corn (and do!!). Now there are hopes...

Genes and Metabolic Syndrome

The headline are this news release reads that your chances of having Metabolic Syndrome increases if you have a certain pattern of genetic markers. And this is important, we continue to learn, because people are overweight, eating unhealthy schlock, and this leads to chronic diseases, including Metabolic Syndrome. Here’s...