Cabbage-Hating Gene Discovered

POTSDAM - German researchers have located a gene that makes some people loathe cabbage and spinach in all their forms, and discovered that the same gene often protects people from obesity.

The German Institute for Food Research in Potsdam near Berlin said the gene makes some people extraordinarily sensitive to the bitter substances phenylthiocarbamid (PTC) and propylthiouracil (PROP). Most people swallow those substances with a smile.

The scientists, led by Wolfgang Meyerhof, investigated how the gene affects human taste receptor hTAS2R38. People who cannot taste PTC and PROP tended to eat fattier foods and become overweight, so a
single gene ends up having a huge effect on eating behaviour.
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too many Big Macs

It is just extremely rare.

:shrug:

Interesting. I suppose there is also a gene someplace that distinguishes people with RRWR (Radical Right Winged Republicans) from the rest of us normal people. People with RRWR obviously don't have much of a brain to start out with. Perhaps it's genetic.

On the other hand, we DO know that people with higher intelligence and higher creativity almost always come out on the left. Those on the right with it are obviously mutants. And those who defect to the right from the left obviously have destroyed the brain cells that cater to higher aspirations as evidenced by those who watch Fox News and read tabloid based newspapers.