{"id":1185,"date":"2009-08-15T07:08:00","date_gmt":"2009-08-15T12:08:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/nicholsclan.com\/tinblog\/2009\/08\/zapping-your-mgat2.html"},"modified":"2009-08-15T07:08:00","modified_gmt":"2009-08-15T12:08:00","slug":"zapping-your-mgat2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/08\/zapping-your-mgat2.html","title":{"rendered":"Zapping Your MGAT2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for chunky chicken wing laden Americans:  Science has found that <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.discovermagazine.com\/discoblog\/2009\/03\/17\/why-do-some-people-never-get-fat-scientists-may-have-the-answer\/\">a specific gene which regulates the enzyme MGAT2<\/a> is apparently responsible for your body either storing or metabolizing fat.  At least in mice, when that gene was knocked out, mice on high fat diets kept their slim physiques while their normal counterparts packed on the pounds.  So if you&#8217;re pining for a glutton burger, then you&#8217;d better check your <s>jeans<\/s> genes first.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyhaha.com\/pictures.htm\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; cursor: pointer; width: 306px; height: 250px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.dailyhaha.com\/_pics\/heart_attack_burger.jpg\" alt=\"Funny Pictures\" title=\"Funny Pictures\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>Interestingly, both sets of mice stayed nice and trim on low fat diets, but where&#8217;s the fun in that?  Bring on the gene therapy clinical trials!<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">\n<h6><span style=\"font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;\">Brought to you by Tim&#8230;<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/\">-Read the whole blog here-<\/a><\/span><\/h6>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Great news for chunky chicken wing laden Americans: Science has found that a specific gene which regulates the enzyme MGAT2<\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\"><a href=\"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/2009\/08\/zapping-your-mgat2.html\" title=\"Read Zapping Your MGAT2\">Read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1185","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1185\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/timscogitorium.com\/tinblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}