World leading obesity expert Professor Stephen O'Rahilly from Cambridge University has recently visited Sydney to take part in a Symposium on obesity and diabetes held at the Garvan Institute of medical Research. "I think that health care workers need to understand that genetics are a major reason for obesity, and avoid being judgmental in the face of the growing evidence," he said in one interview. “Poor diet and lack of exercise take much of the blame for these statistics; however research is now telling us that genes play a major role, perhaps even the major role, in determining a person’s body size,” Professor O’Rahilly says.
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