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To: flashbunny

Some people are tall, some people are short. Surely that’s not hard to understand, right?

Then why is it so hard to believe that some people are genetically disposed to be fatter than others?


47 posted on 09/06/2007 9:42:52 AM PDT by mvpel (Michael Pelletier)
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To: mvpel
Some people are tall, some people are short. Surely that’s not hard to understand, right?

Then why is it so hard to believe that some people are genetically disposed to be fatter than others?

That may be true, but it's more "possible" to lose OR gain an inch of girth, than it is to lose or gain an inch heightwise, without medical intervention.

54 posted on 09/06/2007 9:46:16 AM PDT by CarrotAndStick (The articles posted by me needn't necessarily reflect my opinion.)
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And height is also determined by diet over the years. As people overseas adapt ‘western’ diets, they tend to gain height and also weight.

But so what? If you find your diet makes you fat, change it. If you find you have to do a little extra exercise than your rail thin neighbor to stay thin, do it. Don’t complain and don’t act like a victim.

But now everyone is a victim. But by playing the victim card, they’re turning themselves into the victimizers by ceding control of their own lives and bodies to someone or something else.


56 posted on 09/06/2007 9:48:03 AM PDT by flashbunny (<--- Free Anti-Rino graphics! See Rudy the Rino get exposed as a liberal with his own words!)
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To: mvpel
Some people are tall, some people are short. Surely that’s not hard to understand, right? Then why is it so hard to believe that some people are genetically disposed to be fatter than others?

Because there's no current moral panic going on now about tallness. We don't have a "tallness epidemic." (Although I guess it is still funny that "short people have no reason to live.")

It's ridiculous that you can't have a simple discussion of science around here without it 1) turning into a "fat-bashing" show, 2) turning into a "I lost 50 lbs on the [insert here] diet."

138 posted on 10/01/2007 8:34:08 PM PDT by valkyrieanne
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