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SUMMARY:Behavioural Susceptibility to the 'obesogenc environment': gene-en
 vironment interactions in the obesity epidemic - Dr. Clare Llewellyn\, Uni
 versity College London\, London\, United Kingdom
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CONTACT:Ilana Spilka
DESCRIPTION:Despite the ubiquitous ‘obesogenic’ food environment\, not
  everyone is overweight. Genetic susceptibility to the environment is thou
 ght to explain some of the individual differences in weight\, with differe
 ntial appetitive responses to food\, being implicated as the mediating mec
 hanism\, so-called ‘Behavioural Susceptibility Theory’ (BST). BST hypo
 thesises that individuals who inherit a more avid appetite\, and lower sen
 sitivity to satiety\, are more likely to overeat in response to the modern
  food environment and to gain excessive weight – i.e. ‘obesity genes
 ’ influence adiposity partly through appetitive mechanisms. This talk su
 mmarises the role of differential susceptibility to the environment in the
  obesity epidemic. 
LOCATION:Online
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