Royal Institution Lectures

Are your genes to blame when your jeans don’t fit? + Q&A (Giles Yeo) (2018x2)

Air date: Jan 26, 2018

While the obesity epidemic is a contemporary problem, undoubtedly due to changes in our lifestyle and in the types of food we eat, differences in our genetic make-up mean some of us eat more than others. Join geneticist and neuroscientist Giles Yeo as he discusses how we use genetics as a tool to understand the biological variation in appetite control.