NEWS: Born with Couch Potato Genes?

CULTURE: Born with Couch Potato Genes?

Science Daily is reporting on an experiment that suggests that an individual's activity level shows a genetic basis. From the article:

i dunno bout the rest of you guys, but this kind of sounds like they found the lazy gene...which means they found a gene that controls personality...how long before they find the rest and figure out how to manipulate them....after that it's a short step to manual predetermination...who knows...you may be able to order your baby in 10 years.... or maybe i'm just paranoid....

Makes sense to me. I sure as hell didn't get to be this lazy by working at it.

So I CAN blame my father for my love handles. Bitchin.

Why is that scary?

Dude, I come from a line of inbred eastern European Jews. I already have tons of shit to blame on my genes, but being lazy isn't one of them.

if it counts for anything i didn't even read the thread.
i just saw the title and figured this was my place.

......the "personality" gene? They found and decoded that ages ago.

Sleep tight.

At last I have an argument to get a state funded helper to keep my pad tidy

So when my Mom tells me I'm lazy I can tell her I'm genetically predestined to inactivity and there's nothing I can do?

You don't know what it's like to be genetically predisposed to laziness!

Let me tell you!

After I've had a bit of a sit, and maybe some cake.

You mean the Simmons gene?

You're born with a long tongue and a desperate kind of bravura.

I know some people whom I wish had the "hy" gene.

At least we all have excuses now.

Usually I just can't be bothered to answered people when they say I'm lazy

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I don't quite think I believe this. I come from a family of energetic, go-get-'em, physically over-active drill sergeant-type freaks, and here I am at my computer eating Taco Bell feeling exhausted after sitting on my ass at work all day.

You might be doubly recessive

Total bullshit.