Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" healthy initiative was in danger of being derailed by a recent obesity study.  According to U.S. researchers it seems "a variant of an obesity gene carried by more than a third of the U.S. population also reduces brain volume, raising carrier's risk of Alzheimer's disease." Just when Michelle Obama was on the precipice of infiltrating candy machines, public school cafeterias and having her edifying picture on every bag of Doritos, out comes a study that blames the obesity epidemic on DNA.   The study purports one third of Americans have the genetic makeup that curses them with a proclivity to be portly.  Lo-and- behold thirty-three percent is exactly the number the Center for Disease Control claims makes up the 1/3rd chunkier demographic in America. People with the FTO gene, a variant of the fat mass and obesity also suffer from brain deficits, which may make it hard to discern between a Happy Meal  and a...(Read Full Post)