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Originally Posted by Daradon
Sometimes certain handicaps can cause obesity. Simply because you don't have the mobility you need. Also extreme obesity can qualify as a handicap, though it's a bit of a chicken or egg debate on which is the real problem.
Finally there is a very small portion of the population that cannot help it. But I say very small as there is a very large number of people that like to blame their problem on 'glandular conditions' or other things, when really it's just their lifestyle.
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I said it earlier, so I'll just quote myself on this one:
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Originally Posted by bcsoda
As for the people who choose not to exert their control over their weight willingly, I have to ask, why should they? Fine, if you legitimately have health problems that are proven to be caused by your weight, then maybe someone might want to lose weight, but if they have no health problems then who is society to stigmatize them and demand that they be more aesthetically pleasing (which is constantly changing by the way. 100 years ago a woman who weighed over 200lbs was one of the most famous actresses and known for her beauty, and now today you're criticized if you weigh more than 100lbs)
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Originally Posted by SHOGUN
I appreciate your insight, but people are just lazy and eat like **** all the time... that's why they are overweight.
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Originally Posted by ranchlandsselling
I bolded the relevant part.
Likely could be the same for Pop/Soda too.
I'm sure it's been commented on already, but I haven't finished the thread. But if I was an obese American what I have likely finsihed is a few BPA obesity causing cans of delicious healthy soda pop in the time it took me to read the rest of the thread.
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That is such blatant stereotyping it's not even funny. Not everyone who is overweight is lazy and eat's like #### all the time, and not everyone who is "normal" weight exercises and eats healthy all the time. I know people from both ends of the spectrum who are either lazy or healthy, and who either eat a lot of junk food or eat quite healthily.
Also, I've heard it said from numerous sources that genetics account for 70% of your weight potential and only 30% is environmental - so no, it's not "just" people being lazy and eating like #### all the time, the majority of it is simply the way that they were born.