Does weight loss have anything to do with genes or genetic makeup?
 You must have wondered that some people in spite of eating a lot never gain weight. On the other hand others even on eating a controlled and restricted diet do not loose weight. This is so because each one of us has a specific genetic makeup that determines how our body metabolises our food and whether it should be stored as fat or not. If our metabolism is good, the extra calories are burnt out to produce heat instead of being used to form fat.This burning of extra calories is carried out by a specialised tissue in the body called the Brown Fat. It is also called as the healthy fat.
What is Brown Fat?
The Brown Fat or healthy fat is abundant in particular parts of the body like the back of the neck and shoulders and a few other places in our body.Consequently, it is the amount of brown fat or healthy fat in our body that determines whether we have the tendency to grow fat and gain weight.
If the brown fat is more, we gain less weight and if the brown fat is less we tend to gain weight more rapidly.
This brown fat or healthy fat levels in the body as well as the rate of metabolism of our body that determine whether we gain or loose weight are encoded in our genes and DNA. Hence, some people have an inborn tendency to gain weight.
Now, this is not as bad as this seems to be. People with genetics that make it easy for them to gain weight and difficult to loose weight will just have to work much harder to loose those extra fats. Also their diet should include more of proteins and very less of carbohydrates and fat.
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