What you fail to understand is that your weight is rarely the consequence of your volition. It is much more controlled by our glands, which don’t excrete less or more based upon our willpower.
This doesn’t mean exercise and self control aren’t consequential, but judging our fellow man based upon BMI is ignorant at best.
There are reasons why those over 55 trend with higher BMI, cholesterol, sometimes higher blood sugar levels, use more medications. It isn’t all due to volition.
I don’t completely understand. Are you saying that my glands decide whether or not to eat that dessert? ...or to buy that milkshake and eat it? ...or to not exercise more? ...or to sit around all day watching TV and eating sheet cake? My glands do this????? It seems that ultimately it is your choice.
Listen, if obesity “runs in the family” then running will prevent the family from becoming obese. If your great grandparents spent most of their waking hours engaged in physical work they were probably thin, regardless of whether they had the fat gene, the ‘emotional distress’ gene or not. I’m not prejudice in the least against obesity — just saying there is no organ in the body that causes the eater to consume too many doughnuts. And they should be paying for those doughnuts as well as the consequences regardless.
“What you fail to understand is that your weight is rarely the consequence of your volition. “
Your weight is ALWAYS a consequence of calories in being greater than calories out for a sustained period of time, in every case.
Some folks burn calories naturally faster than others, but the fact remains that obesity and overweight IS a factor of eating more calories than you burn. So lets dispense with that right now.
Genetics may make your metabolism faster or slower, may make you build muscle faster or slower, may make you lazy or not, but if you burn more calories than you take in on a sustained basis you will lose weight every single time, regardless of glands, or other malady, except perhaps kidney failure.