Hardwired to eat: what can our dogs teach us about obesity?

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🗓️ 23 April 2024

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Labradors are known for being greedy dogs, and now scientists have come up with a theory about the genetic factors that might be behind their behaviour. Science correspondent and flat-coated retriever owner Nicola Davis visits Cambridge University to meet Dr Eleanor Raffan and Prof Giles Yeo to find out how understanding this pathway could help us treat the obesity crisis in humans. Help support our independent journalism at theguardian.com/sciencepod

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1:10.0	Leo is a very big chunky black Labrador. Anything there is there to eat he will eat it.
1:17.0	Catherine's dog, Leo, stops at nothing for a nice bit of grub. We were having a barbecue at our house once and everybody had brought some food and we put the desserts under the table and so all of a sudden someone saw Leo under the table and he'd eaten half a bowl of trifle.
1:36.0	Leo just can't resist and he's not alone.
1:42.0	The Royal Veterinary College has described obesity in dogs
1:45.6	as a modern day epidemic.
1:47.7	We've trained him that he shouldn't pick vegetables
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