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Originally Posted by Devils'Advocate
I don't think it's so much genetic as it is learned behaviour.
Both my parents came from poor households where food was scarce.
Once they both got middle class jobs, we started eating out more. A&W on Wednesday, KFC on Friday, and Burger King and Dairy Queen on the weekends.
Not to mention half-moons, caramel cakes and chips on the counters at home.
Both my parents who were skinny in high school quickly became overweight and my brother and I picked up the bad eating habits.
So often when you see a family of overweight people, I don't think "bad genes", I think "parents with bad nutritional habits".
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For me that is what it is.
I never learned portion control, or how to make good food choices when I was growing up.
A couple times I have been on diets that have helped me figure it out, but it is hard to reverse an entire lifetime of not worrying about what I eat.