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Dude, go talk to a bariatric specialist. You don't know what the fuck you're talking about.

You ever even look into the advances in bariatric medicine the last decade? Ever help treat a bariatric patient? 99% behaviorial is utter bullshit, and does not match currer best information.

Genetics didn't likely change, but epigenetics is how our systems respond to conditions in and around us. And that absolutely can and has changed in the last fifty years, and was changing before that.

How our food is process impacts the entire endocrine system, our microbiota in not only the gut, but the entire body. We've got massive increases in environmental contamination over the same kind of timeline, which can not only directly effect systemic function, it can change epigenetics in the womb, and the actual genes themselves.

99% behaviorial my hairy ass.

Even that part is influenced by how food is processed, since there's enough shit in anything you grow, even when you're growing it yourself to play a factor. Actual processed foods are literally designed to trigger our brains and kick off addictions to the added fats and sugars.

That kind of bullshit is the same kind of brainless thing that leads to people thinking vaccines cause autism. There's a metric buttload of data pointing to both weight gain and difficulty in weight loss being heavily influenced by external factors, but you're in here like "nuh-uh, my data set of two fat kids in school says no"

How is a list of seven(!) different analyzed potential factors reduced by you with a "wtf" to one of those?

And then followed by an anecdote, a correlated studies off topic to the study described and a bit of conspiracy theory (note: one of the few I even support myself, but i's out of scope of this article!).

You're actively harming the points you want to make by jumping onto the wrong targets.

I think they’re just saying that they found another link to obesity causing things. On the flip side of this my family can eat literally anything we want and not a single one of us is more than 130 pounds(all somewhere between 5’7 and 6’). I mean I’ve watched my brother slam 4 eggs, two slices of cheesecake, and half a gallon of milk for breakfast. He also tried to gain weight for two months by upping his calorie intake to somewhere around 6K calories a day. He gained like a pound and dropped it cause it was expensive…

We can only gain weight by adding muscle. My other brother was in the military and heaviest he ever weighed was after training. It’s been a few decades since then and he’s right back to his earlier weight.

I’ve been told by many that oh as you age that metabolism is gonna slow and you’ll start putting on the pounds. There is some truth to that but not as extreme as others.

My 70+ year old mother is 103 pounds. She might gain a few pounds if she has 2-3 shakes in a week(this also means she’s just on a sweets binge in general). All that’s required to lose it? Not have shakes the next week. Mind you this is someone who had 4 children and left the hospital after pregnancy within a few pounds of their pre-pregnancy weight.

So genetics is absolutely a factor and I’m all for them uncovering what that link is and researching it. The more we understand things the better.

I’d like to put on some weight…even fat. Cause I’m literally low single digit fat percentage right now which isn’t healthy either. Mind you I have a desk job. Not like I’m the epitome of active people.

You should see my '89 year book. Almost no one was even slightly overweight except for the biggest jocks. I see people every day that would have shocked us in the 80s and 90s.

My friend across the street is grossly obese. His best friend just calls him "chubby", but really fat. Told him the guy would have been the fattest kid in my senior class (excepting the jocks).

My theory is this: People keep seeing people bigger than themselves and saying, "I might be fat, but at least I'm not that fat!" Rinse and repeat.