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Personal responsibility, people?
This article was among the bigger loads of hogwash I've ever read. Genetics plays ''more'' of a role in obesity than behavior and diet? Bull. Travel some. Go to Asia. Maybe the Mediterranean. People are thin there. There simply aren't chubby children scarfing down Happy Meals everywhere you look (like there are here). But Asian and ...
Posted to Green Room by ENH on July 11, 2008
Illogical Genetic Theory
If genes contribute more to obesity than diet, why does the author also say that the poorest Americans are the fattest? And where is the evidence that the poor in American consume less calories than the better-off? Does poverty or associated factors somehow cause the genes to go awry in a matter of a single generation? And why are the poor in ...
Posted to Green Room by Waschbaer on July 11, 2008