[Mase]

Just a few generations ago obesity was almost nonexistent. That's because people worked like hell and didn't have the money to eat like we do today. Do you really believe that some latent obesity gene has finally decided to surface and cause 25% of our population to become obese?

If so, then you'll believe just about anything -- like there's a gay gene. Excuses are made by people who will not take responsibility for their condition/lives. Same as it ever was.....

[netmilsmom]

>>Just a few generations ago obesity was almost nonexistent.<<

Just a few generations ago, people worked a lot in the summer and sat on their butts all winter long, starving.

Read the Little House books. They went an entire winter with little to nothing to eat. The ‘obesity gene’ WAS a survival gene for times when there was no food. How did anyone survive the Death Camps? Some of them just had a gene that let them “power down” when they had little to eat.

Oh, and obesity was far from non-existant. Check out pictures of the Eskimos and Eastern Europeans. People naturally bulked up. They had to.
I would agree that the grossly obese are new to the scene, but to say that no one was obese is silly.

[goodnesswins]

Yeah...didn’t have food stamps either....and look now at the average weight of a food stamp recipient.....