Only because they either don’t eat or get a lot of exercise. Our genes also impact our appetite. I know some slow muscle folks that are skinny, but they don’t eat, I mean they think they eat, but they’re confused. They come in starving, eat one of out two tacos on the plate two bites of the sides and are stuffed. I kind of hate them. I can eat, I mean I can EAT. I try hard not to, but sometime you get tired of being hungry.
The biggest culprit is that we live a life other than what our body evolved for. The human body expects to eat a square meal every couple of weeks and mostly starve in between. It craves fat and sugar, which is why we enjoy them so much because the body rewards us with endorphins when we eat them. It wants to store up an extra 30 pounds because winter is coming and food will be hard to find. We simply aren’t geared for a reality without scarcity where we can acquire thousands of calories of food while expending basically none.
The freshman 15 is all part of that. I actually was skinny in my youth, had no food, had no money, walked an hour and a half to work which was on my feet. Went to college, got a real job, fixed all that. I ain’t going back to that. I don’t want to go back to one meal a day, I don’t want to be on my feet all day, I LIKE my life this way, I’d just like about 30 pounds of it to go away. But of course in the end I’m MUCH healthier now than then, I don’t get sick as often, I can do more with less pain. The fact is in my skinny days I was running my body on the edge, and it wasn’t a good thing.
Georgia, comfort food. Mmmmm.
I don’t disagree with you, but I’m a doctor, and it wasn’t until recently that I actually understood how we metabolize food, and the result of processed foods in America.
I’ll give you one example. Alkaline water. This is water that has a pH well above 7, closer to 9.5-10.
People in Japan have drank alkaline water for 50 years with remarkable results.
It lowers blood pressure, detoxifies your body, aids in digestion, increases energy, etc.
Tap and most bottle water is slightly acidic.
I don’t think this is a passing fad, and in fact I look for this the next biggest thing.
Look on the shelf at your grocer in the bottled water. You’ll be lucky to find it. Check back in six months and everyone will be selling it.
Alkaline water is easy to make. Add 1/8 tsp of baking soda in 8 oz of water.
But try this. Buy some store tomatoes or packaged vegetable that have been cleaned. Separate them into two batches.
Soak one batch in a bowl of tap water. Soak the other in a bowl of tap water with a couple tsps of baking soda. Wait five minutes and look at the water.
Next, rinse both groups quickly. Then taste and compare, tasting the batch that was in the alkaline water first.