Have our genes completely changed in 60 years?
Conn Carroll
President Joe Biden recently appointed Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford to be on the Department of Agriculture’s 2025 Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, which is scheduled to issue new dietary guidelines for the public in 2025.
Stanford was recently seen on 60 Minutes this year promoting weight loss drugs sold by pharmaceutical companies that advertise on 60 Minutes. The thrust of Lesley Stahl’s report was that the federal government should start paying for everyone’s weight loss drugs.
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Obesity, according to Stanford, isn’t primarily caused by how much people eat or exercise, but genetics. Here is what she told Stahl: “The No. 1 cause of obesity is genetics. That means if you were born to parents that have obesity, you have a 50%-85% likelihood of having the disease yourself even with optimal diet, exercise, sleep management, stress management.”
But if genetics is the No. 1 cause of obesity, then why has the public gotten so much fatter in just the last 60 years? According to the CDC, the percentage of the public who are considered obese has risen from 14% in 1960 to over 40% today.
Did our genes change that much in just 60 years?
Or maybe it is not our genes that have changed but our lifestyles. The public both eats more today than ever before, and exercises less. I’m no doctor, but maybe it is all this eating more and exercising less that is causing more of the public to be fat and not some sudden change in our genetics.
Either way, with Stanford on the USDA Dietary Guidelines Committee, I personally am going to throw their results directly into the trash.
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