Title: Capacity for Exercise Can Be Inherited
Post by: Tank on September 03, 2010, 09:36:05 AM
Post by: Tank on September 03, 2010, 09:36:05 AM
Capacity for Exercise Can Be Inherited: Finding Suggests Pharmaceutical Drugs Can Be Used to Alter Activity Levels in Humans (http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100901121805.htm)
I can now blame my parents for being a lazy bastard!
QuoteScienceDaily (Sep. 1, 2010) â€" Biologists at the University of California, Riverside have found that voluntary activity, such as daily exercise, is a highly heritable trait that can be passed down genetically to successive generations...
I can now blame my parents for being a lazy bastard!
Title: Re: Capacity for Exercise Can Be Inherited
Post by: The Magic Pudding on September 03, 2010, 12:38:23 PM
Post by: The Magic Pudding on September 03, 2010, 12:38:23 PM
Quote from: "Tank"I can now blame my parents for being a lazy bastard! :)
My own study to confirm these findings is inconclusive.
One daughter is an obsessive triathlete, and the other is much more leisurely.
I know my sample size is small, but it's a bit late to do anything about that.