The answer maybe somewhere in the middle, but I still think diet, exercise are far bigger factors than some of the people here believe…
I’m sorry about your sister as well CAR, and kids are especially mean, but having that happen probably won’t make you the most objective voice in this since you’ve seen your sister go through hell trying everything to lose weight, and it still didn’t work, but that’s still 1 person with a different body than everyone else.
I watched some documentary called Forks over Knives and the guy who had massive health issues taking all the meds, diet, etc…and immediately switched his food intake had massive changes to his health problems. He had more energy, no more diabetes and
Maybe it’s all some left wing or right wing (I don’t really know) propaganda against fast food, but having lived in asia, visited europe various times, the American lifestyle of driving everywhere, insane calorie coffees, and most kids rather sitting in front of the TV or phone to text or whatever their friends is still a bigger cause in my opinion than genetics and just born fat.
Yes, this is spoken as someone who was never overweight (I did test my metabolism once at 24 hour fitness and I burned the normal 2000 calories per day), but I also watched what I ate pretty early on or at least balanced it through lots of exercise.
Oh well, this is the Internet and I suppose we’ll just have to disagree as usual.
