[quote=FlyerInHi]CAr, I’m sorry about your sister.
But try to look at it rationally.
I don’t dispute that some babies are fat at birth. That makes them predispositioned to being fat as adults. But the future is not predetermined.
Fat babies in America who grow up on western diet consisting of baby formula and canned baby food will be fat. Then they are exposed to apple pie, pizza, hot dogs, sodas, spaghetti, hamburgers, fries, brownies, ice cream, cup cakes, oreo cookies, potato chips, steaks, ribs, etc…
But that American diet is not the only viable diet.
In rural parts of Asia (not the city) people eat fish, mostly veggies, no processed carbs other than rice (maybe they can’t even afford processed white rice), some poultry, very little meat. People in tropical, rainy SE Asia are especially blessed because they have so many fruits year round. Fruit and veggies just grow everywhere.
There are people of all shapes even “fat” people, but nothing even approaching fat by American standards.
They eat that diet not by choice but by necessity. If they don’t die from unsanitary conditions, or lack of medical care they often live to become centenarians.
We have so much knowledge now. We can use that knowledge to customize our diets. We don’t all have to consume the same American diet, then periodically go on yoyo weight loss diets. As I say before, the key is never to gain weight as adults. Then we don’t need to worry about losing weight.[/quote]
Again, the same, ignorant assumptions about other people’s habits. My mother was European and exclusively breastfed her babies. She didn’t use store-bought baby food for the most part. She always cooked fresh food and shunned processed foods. The diets she put my sister on were all health-based diets.
Sorry, Brian, but you have no idea what you’re talking about. You’re also ignoring the fact that different races have different genetic profiles. Some races have evolved over the years to store food, while others who’ve traditionally had more access to food tend to have faster metabolisms.
I suppose you think that hair/eye/skin color, predisposition to certain diseases, etc. are all genetic, but body shape/size is influenced entirely by one’s environment. Nothing could be further from the truth.
