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Originally Posted by websiex
My personal views aren't that harsh, but I agree that it is mostly the fault of the person to be overweight. It basically does simply come down to how much you eat, mostly how much you eat on a regular basis - past and presently.
Yes, some people may be at a larger risk for becoming overweight, but that just means that those people should try to regulate the amount of food they eat on a regular basis. Also, it says 16% of the population are at risk, yet in the United States you have around 32% of the population obese, and over 60% overweight.
Basically, it is another excuse for the person to blame someone else, not him or herself.
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Look at the other side of the coin then. Explain to me why my son can consume 3 times as much as an adult, and he's still so scrawny he's in clothes two age groups below him? The opposite is true of him, he inherited an OVERACTIVE metabolism, and nothing I or anyone else can do can change that. We can do our best to give him a good diet, but in the end his body will be what it will be. I feel very much for people who have to battle not only themselves, but their genetics to battle obesity, because it makes the job doubly tough. Certainly not an excuse to not live/eat a healthy way, but show me someone who's perfect all the time and I'll show you a liar
