Some people eat all they want and never gain an ounce.
Others look at a piece of cheesecake and it goes directly to their hips or waistline. Yes, says Dr. Neal Barnard, founder of Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine in Washington, D.C., but you can learn how to reprogram your genes to create a svelte self. A gene on Chromosome 8 makes an enzyme called lipoprotein lipase, or LPL, that is responsible for storing fat. If you eat a piece of sausage for breakfast, this enzyme is in your bloodstream and it reaches out and grabs the fat from the sausage and sends it to your hips, he said. If I were to take a needle and extract some of your fat, we could tell what you have been eating, whether it s beef or fish or even olive oil.