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Crave Sugar? Maybe It's in Your Genes

05-Feb-2017

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Some people are genetically attuned to crave sweet sustenance.

Examined genes of 6,500 Danish people taking part in a heart disease study.

People with FGF21 variant were 20 percent more likely seek out sugar.

FGF21 provides instructions for making a food regulation hormone.

Liver may play a larger role in snack management than previously known.

Strangely these people also tended to have lower body mass index.

The study was published in the Cell Metabolism journal.

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Cell Metabolism

Scientific Journal providing information from many different areas of metabolism

Matthew Paul Gillum

Associate Professor at University of Copenhagen.

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