Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" healthy initiative was in danger of being derailed by a recent obesity study.  According to U.S. researchers it seems "a variant of an obesity gene carried by more than a third of the U.S. population also reduces brain volume, raising carrier's risk of Alzheimer's disease."

Just when Michelle Obama was on the precipice of infiltrating candy machines, public school cafeterias and having her edifying picture on every bag of Doritos, out comes a study that blames the obesity epidemic on DNA.   The study purports one third of Americans have the genetic makeup that curses them with a proclivity to be portly.  Lo-and- behold thirty-three percent is exactly the number the Center for Disease Control claims makes up the 1/3^rd chunkier demographic in America.

People with the FTO gene, a variant of the fat mass and obesity also suffer from brain deficits, which may make it hard to discern between a Happy Meal  and a McDonald's, Quarter-pounder with cheese.

The result is that a  prevalent gene not only adds inches to your waistline, but brain scans of more than 200 people "found consistently less tissue in the brains of people who carry the ‘bad' version of the FTO gene compared to non-carriers."  

Now if the FTO link between small brains and abundant adipose is valid, the FLOTUS could use the opportunity to provide a public service by suggesting to Democrat voters that it may be more considerate to purchase two seats, when flying Jet Blue to Barbara Boxer rallies.

On average, people with the obesity variant of the FTO gene had 8 percent less tissue in their frontal lobes - sometimes referred to as the brain's ‘command center.'  They also had 12 percent less tissue in their occipital lobes, which is part of the brain that processes vision and other perceptions.