Okay, so you are fat and stupid.  But the good news is that it is not your fault.   You are meant to be that way.  This cheery news comes from medicine.com.

“European scientists report that a genetic variation seems to virtually guarantee that a person will become obese.

The genetic variation in question robs people of about 30 genes and appears to be found in seven of every 1,000 severely obese people, the researchers report. The same variation also may be linked to mental retardation and learning disabilities.

“Obesity is definitively a genetic trait, and it is very likely that additional small chromosomal abnormalities exist that may dramatically increase the risk of obesity and may also be linked to brain developmental problems,” said Dr. Philippe Froguel, co-author of a study published in the Feb. 4 issue of the journal Nature and head of genomic medicine at Imperial College London.”

This news gives me all the justification I need to sit down by my fireplace and burn all the books in my library I was never going to read anyway.  While this goes on, I will be devouring a double cheeseburger washed down with a chocolate malted.  Got a dessert suggestion?