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It’s 2021.  5% is the new 100%.  Right?  Also, the cheeseburgers made people eat them.

In short, we can’t even have this discussion if the conversation diverts to rare disorders to the exclusion of actually talking about the overwhelming majority. [/quote]
You really want to play this game? Metabolic syndromes include: cystic fibrosis, Tay Sachs, PCOS, maple syrup urine disease, phenylketonuria, tyrosinemia, sickle cell anemia.... you catch me, right? No, being overweight doesn’t cause most metabolic syndromes

Oh, you guys [i]misspoke[/i] and when you said “metabolic disorders” you just meant type 2 diabetes? Maybe. But some researchers theorize that there’s something else at play, that the pre-diabetes/diabetes exist and stimulate the person to eat, much like how kids start eating before a growth spurt.

Seriously, read the two books I linked to. I know you think fat is funny and entirely the fault of the fat monster walking around in it, but you’re not right. (And since I mentioned it, PCOS is another one that causes a person to gain weight vs gaining weight causes a person to develop it.) You guys just want so badly for fat to be the person’s fault entirely because you know that if it’s true that there are multiple factors at play - and 2/3 of the US being overweight/obese suggests there are - then you’re kind of a smug douche. I don’t brag that I don’t need wine and beer to get through my days. Instead of being a smug douche who can control herself around the sauce, I recognize that I get no reward from alcohol. I can take or it or leave it and I pretty much leave it. You... go the other way. [/quote]

All of this is incredibly narrow. If it wasn’t, we wouldn’t have historic rates of obesity. That wasn’t a thing as recently as the 1970s.  I guess it’s all a wild conspiracy and the human body itself changed in the last 40 years. Amazing. [/quote]
So, you really think people got lazier and more glutinous in just 40 years?
Doubt it, not long enough to change behavior patterns of big group of people. Food industry and pharma on the other hand did evolve to the levels one can only imagine.[/quote]

Of course people are more glutinous now- because it is so easy to be!  Fast/casual food on every corner, delivery of groceries, grubhub, amazon delivers, curbside pick up, out sourcing house cleaning and yard work, work from home.  People move so much less and eat way more than they ever did.  [/quote]

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