More on Obesity

[Guest guest]

Hi folks:

Don't you just love all the reasons people dream up to explain why

their excess weight is not their responsibility? Here is another one:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/3701628.stm

This time it is supposed to be their genes that are at fault.

I do wish someone would explain to me where it was exactly these

people think they acquired these mutated genes.

Since we know obesity these days is double or triple what it was

forty years ago, we know for certain that most obese individuals

could not possibly have acquired these genes from their parents, most

of whom were not obese.

Logic therefore suggests that, if mutated genes are indeed related to

obesity, it is more likely that it is the obesity that is causing the

mutations, rather than the reverse. After all, we do know that

carrying excess fat has all kinds of other untoward effects on the

body's activities.

Rodney.

[Guest guest]

>>Don't you just love all the reasons people dream up to explain why

their excess weight is not their responsibility? Here is another one:

This time it is supposed to be their genes that are at fault.

I have a cartoon I use in one of my talks of a Doctor talking to an

overweight patient and the caption is " it is partly glandular, and

partly 5500 calories a day " .