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Taste for high-fat food in our genes

05-Oct-2016

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Some people are genetically wired to prefer the taste of fatty foods

One in 1,000 people carry a defective version of MC4R gene which controls hunger.

Having a defect in the MC4R gene means hunger can become insatiable.

Our brains can detect the nutrient content of foods.

The study was published in the Nature Communications journal.

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Nature Communications

Journal covering all topics in physics, chemistry, and biology

Sadaf Farooqi

Professor of Metabolism and Medicine at Cambridge University.

University of Cambridge

Collegiate research university in Cambridge, United Kingdom

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