Reply #12: This may explain why the percent of women who hare obese has leveled off

[eridani]

If the prevalence of alterations in the master gene determines who CAN get fat in response to changes in the environment, there obviously has to be an upper limit.

http://articles.boston.com/2006-04-05/news/29239697_1_cynthia-ogden-obesity-data-leveling

More American children are getting fat, with more than one-third now overweight. More of their dads are getting heavy, too.

But the percentage of women who are overweight seems to have peaked, leading some specialists to wonder whether the obesity epidemic may soon be leveling off.

Overall, larger proportions of the US public are overweight than ever before, according to the government's most accurate recent check of the nation's girth. But women, who as a group are more obese, seem to be holding steady.