In Fatville we ruddy love science that comforts us as we waddle down the inexorable path to obesity. We recall a story in The Telegraph earlier this year that claimed scientists have ‘discovered’ how some of us never put on weight while others struggle to shed an ounce.
Hooray for those clever boffins! Thanks to them we can happily console ourselves, safe in the knowledge that if there’s a ‘fat gene’ or a ‘thin gene’ being overweight is completely unavoidable. Many in our study seemed to think so.
It’s going to be tough enough to get out of Fatville without being told again and again that we’re up against genetics as well as everything else in our strange, strange world.