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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is this mostly genetic or over eating?  I am constantly surprised by the number of overweight young children that I see when I am at my kids elementary school.  I sincerely do not remember kids being overweight when I was growing up.

My kids eat well 70% of the time but the other 30% of the time they eat like kids - junk food, sweets, etc.  but they are all extremely thin.  Probably genetics?  They are active in sports and aren't into video games but I assume its mostly genetics. [/quote]

My kids eat none of the junk yours do, our family of 4 has leftovers from a large pizza, they and are always active in athletics. One is a bean pole with no muscle (not matter how hard he tries to develop muscle, competitive swimmer), and one is overweight (3 sports). Obviously it is genetics.[/quote]

PP - agree that its genetic but does one parent tend to be more overweight than the other?

I have 3 kids and all 3 are skinny.  I mostly find it interesting that you can have multiple kids with same 50/50 DNA from mom and dad and still end up being opposite ends of the genetics.  You call tell a mile away my 3 kids are siblings, they look a lot a like, and they are all very thin (without obviously eating well per my previous comment).  [/quote]

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