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An interesting article over at Discover Magazine may have the answer to a question many of us have asked for years, “Why do some people never get fat?”

The enzyme MGAT2 is found in the intestines and determines the fate of our food by regulating how it is metabolized: It either makes fat go straight to your waistline, or converts it into energy… When mice are missing the gene for MGAT2, they can eat whatever they want and never have to worry about getting fat.

That’s an interesting bit of information, but there’s no substitute to a healthy lifestyle. I don’t think there will ever be a magic skinny pill, we’ll leave stuff like that to the science fiction writers.

read more at Discover Magazine