Maybe you wouldn’t disparage a overweight person, but this thread is with those that do. The discussion isn’t about the impact of weight on health. It is about understanding the various mechanisms that produce weight, and not all can be contributed to overeating. BTW, my Grandmothers were overweight in their 80s.
Okay, now I know of two people. I’ll start my list.
Seriously though, I know there are exceptions to everything. Skinny people eat enormous amounts of food and remain thin; chubs eat little and remain chubby; smokers don’t die of lung cancer. That is little reason to rejoice. Good common sense must prevail in all of these scenarios. I’m not going to become obese and say to myself, “well, oneamaricanvoice’s two grammies were just fine.” No, I’m going to listen to sound medical and scientific evidence but not get too ridiculous about it because I like to enjoy life too. Moderation in all things as St. Paul once said.
So was my wife's grandmother, well into her eithies. She did get a little thinner after she got senile (probably mini strokes , my Father in law had those too, but was always thin like his father, of course at the end he was skeletal) My grandmother wasn't thin, well my paternal one was but she died in her 50s from cancer, but she died in her late 60s, from cancer. Needless to say, I get the old bowel inspected pretty frequently. (Dad had colon cancer too, but they caught it soon enough and he lived for about 15 years after that)