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Originally Posted by PsYcNeT
So who on the pro-obesity side of this discussion are taking the
a) obesity is a disease that is hard to treat side
and who is taking
b) obesity is part of out genetic makeup as humans and is healthy side
It's getting confusing.
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I'm not sure what the "sides" are, but me personally I don't know if obesity is a disease or not. But I do think that if the lack of will power against other addictions (booze, sex, etc..) is considered as such, why not addictions to food?
And to b), just because someone could have a genetic pre-disposition to obesity doesn't mean it is healthy. The body urges us to do unhealthy things all the time.
But you would think, evolutionarily, people in general are predisposed to eat anything they can whenever they can as a survival technique. I think that over the last 100 years or so our minds have evolved at a much faster pace than our bodies and so we have the intelligence to know what is required in order to maintain a healthy body, but our physiology may not have gone far beyond trying to eat as much as we can whenever we can, or maybe some people are just lagging in that regard.