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Can Your Genes Make You Feel Fat?

Can Your Genes Make You Feel Fat?

How you see your body is partly genetically determined.

A university in Colorado investigated the extent to which our self-image is genetically determined. How we experience our weight and whether we consider ourselves fat is 47 percent fixed in our genes. Especially in women…

That may explain why we used to think we were fat, while now we would kill to have our 'old' body again.

Fortunately, 53 percent is not fixed in our genes. So there is plenty of room to work on better self-image and self-confidence.

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