Posts Tagged ‘nature nurture debate’

Nature, Nurture, and a Better Genetic Risk Score for Obesity

July 22, 2025 — Since forever we have known that obesity is a highly heritable disease. Genes are important, though not solely determinative. They set the table for obesity, but for the most part, it is the environment that serves it up. That’s because the genetic basis for obesity usually comes from multiple genes, not a single gene. So […]

Genes and Dietary Destiny

June 16, 2022 — Genes are not destiny. We tire of people who cling to this one side of the false nature versus nurture dichotomy. They’re stuck on the fallacy of thinking that genetic and environmental influences on health must sum to 100 percent. One or the other must be dominant, they seemingly assume. But the truth is that […]