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Obesity is in some kids' DNA
Some children get severely obese because they lack particular chunks of
DNA, which kicks their hunger into overdrive, researchers report.
The British researchers checked the DNA of 300 children who'd become very fat, on the order of 220 pounds by age 10. They looked for deletions or extra copies of DNA segments.
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