Thread: Half Ton Man
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Old Jun 19, 2006, 12:29 AM
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I believe there are some sort of genes that effect the way our bodies react to food. Every-body's body is different, and I'd say that the genes we possess are just as normal as big feet, brown hair, and blue eyes.

I also believe that decades of family members influenced the next generation and their eating habits continued on.

Personally in my family I cannot think of one person who is not obese. Every person on my mothers side is severely over weight and on my fathers side their obesity was easily covered by thier height. I watched my mother change over the years and I see that she is beginning to get larger and larger every year, just like her mother did when she hit mid 30's. I personally fear that I will be just as large as my family members when I turn 30, I already possess the horrible eating habits and lazy life style, my age and metabolism has kept me relatively thin, but that will eventually fade and my body and I will be on our own.

I agree that food can easily become addictive as well. If you think about it food is available where every you go, on every corner. When you watch T.V advertisement for food is thrown in your face every ten minutes. Then in grocery stores they purposely set up the junk food isles in between departments such as bread, dairy, frozen, and produce, so that you have no choice but to walk past pies, chips, pop, candy, and premade dinners.

There's obvisouly so many factors that could contribute to this problem, but out of the entire world the majority of obese people live in America. So it's very likely that food itself, and not necessarily genes and influence, have the most power.

What do you think?
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