Genes that make you fat and alcoholic

Today's interesting fact has to do with fat and alcohol.

They have recently discovered that there chemicals that are produced in the hypothalamus that control your desire to eat fatty foods and/or drink alcoholic liquids.

The amount of these chemicals produced have been found to be controlled by specific genes, and they have shown that certain alleles of those genes produce more than others.

I've already discussed about how they found there are additional taste buds that identify different types of fats on your tongue, and that they've shown that we can suffer cravings for specific types of fat and oil in our food.

This suggests that we are less under control of what we desire to eat, than doctors thought.