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Believe you can lose weight and you can

09-Sep-2015

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Or at least this survey of 9,000 people found that people who believe weight is determined by their DNA have a less healthy body mass index (BMI), exercise less and have poorer eating habits.

The studies were published in the Health Education & Behavior journal and The Journals of Gerontology, Series A.

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B. Lee Peterlin

Associate Professor of Neurology at Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Chan-Won Kim

Clinical Associate Professor at Sungkyunkwan University.

Health Education & Behavior (HEB)

Healthcare journal covering applied behavioral and social science in public health.

Johns Hopkins University (JHU)

Private research university in Maryland, USA

Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine

School of Medicine at the Sungkyunkwan University.

The Journals of Gerontology, Series A

Scientific journal covering the field of aging

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