People who are overweight may be able to partly blame their muscles for storing too much fat, a study suggests. The muscle of severely obese people appears to be programmed to amass more fat compared to that of lean people, US researchers at Duke University found. This programming, which is down to a gene, might also explain why some obese people find it hard to keep weight down despite cutting calories, they said. Targeting the gene with drugs may help, they told Cell Metabolism journal.
