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The prevalence of childhood obesity has tripled in the last 15 years. Weight gain depends not only on how many calories you ingest, but also in whatever form. Carbohydrates, contrary to what was supposed to gain weight more than fat caloric value being equal.

Two studies in the Department of Food Science, Physiology and Toxicology at the University of Navarra has shown that not all calories as fat.

They show two articles published in Molecular Genetics and Metabolism and Journal of Nutrigenetics and Nutrigenomics, two relevant publications in the field of Nutrition. They describe the results of these investigations, comparing the weight gain caused by two isocaloric diets (with the same calories), one rich in fat and the other rich in carbohydrates, both conducted in rodents.

So far we suspected that our diet and our parents, grandparents, etc., Affecting our genetics According to the published results, weight gain depends not only on how many calories you ingest, but also in whatever form. “This difference,” explains one of the study’s authors, Professor of Nutrition Alfredo Martinez, “is due to changes in our cells, ie, diet-induced changes in our genes through a process called methylation” he says. Read the rest of this entry »