New research suggests that obesity and diabetes are a downside of human evolution

As if the recent prediction that half of all Americans will have diabetes or pre-diabetes by the year 2020 isn't alarming enough, a new genetic discovery published online in the FASEB Journal (http://www.fasebj.org) provides a disturbing explanation as to why: we took an evolutionary 'wrong turn.' In the research report, scientists show that human evolution leading to the loss of function in a gene called 'CMAH' may make humans more prone to obesity and diabetes than other mammals...

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