[Capriole]

I don't mind spending tax money on legitimate science, either--hey, I was trained as a scientist! I like to see friends get big fat grants! But this is garbage science. This is not something that needs lavish dollops of tax money, like figuring out how to cure cancer or go back to the moon. The fact that Americans are fat while our cousins in other countries are slender shows that our waistlines have nothing whatever to do with genes. If you're fat and your mama was fat, that has nothing to do with genes; that's the result of behavior you learned at her knee, or the result of your own lack of self control in the face of America's amazing bounty of food.

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"Your mamma's" obesity may well be the result of both heredity and behavioral environment. The same almost certainly applies to "yours".....