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Subject: Being overweight is a lifestyle choice, not a medical issue

I do agree with this as I was quite chubby a few years ago but I've quite effectively curb stomped it by not being a fatass.

But I believe genes DO have something to do with it. I'm a pretty huge build (not fat just huge chest shoulders etc) and that probably has something to do with my mothers side of the family. Infact it was my mothers side of the family that scared me to the point of assuring I don't continue the line of fatasses.

  • 11.29.2012 1:35 PM PDT
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Well, here we are. I guess that it was destined to come to this.


Posted by: MrBojangles136

Posted by: Recon Number 54
So, if being overweight is ALWAYS a "lifestyle choice"... yeah? So what?


It's grotesque to look at.

Fat people are like smokers. Just offensive to those around them.

Easily offended much? If you're offended, it's your problem. They aren't here to make you happy or comfortable, or for your viewing pleasure/displeasure.

Or are you saying that you have more right to not be offended than anyone else?

  • 11.29.2012 2:10 PM PDT


Posted by: Recon Number 54

Posted by: MrBojangles136

Posted by: Recon Number 54
So, if being overweight is ALWAYS a "lifestyle choice"... yeah? So what?


It's grotesque to look at.

Fat people are like smokers. Just offensive to those around them.

Easily offended much? If you're offended, it's your problem. They aren't here to make you happy or comfortable, or for your viewing pleasure/displeasure.

Or are you saying that you have more right to not be offended than anyone else?


No I have the offended gene and thyroid issues.

It's not my fault and they should be more accommodating of my disability.

  • 11.29.2012 2:13 PM PDT

i dont see it as caused by genes. my mother has big bones (medically proven) so there is a tiny chance i have that, but i dont think i do.

i am lazy and eat a lot. nothing more.

however, on the medical condition point, i would say that people who are so fat they literally fill a king-size bed and it is impossible for them to get up, then it could be classed as a medical condition.

on the genes note, i have a friend who is massively underweight but eats about 3x as much as a normal person. caused by his genes. lucky -blam!-....

[Edited on 11.29.2012 2:16 PM PST]

  • 11.29.2012 2:14 PM PDT

OP is projecting.

  • 11.29.2012 2:14 PM PDT

~Thread-killer~

OP is a liar or willfully ignorant.

Granted, the number of overweight cases caused my physiological abnormalities pales in comparison to those caused by sedentary lifestyles coupled by sub-par diets, but to say all fatties are there because they choose to is stupid.

  • 11.29.2012 2:16 PM PDT
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I agree on the whole about it being lifestyle choices, however it can come down to medical problems for some people.

I for one am slightly overweight and yes it is mainly because I do tend to slightly overeat but I do also do exercise (and will be doing quite a lot once I get my bike fixed soon).

As for other people, well my mum for instance when she was young could eat whatever she wanted without putting weight on. However when she was put on anti depressants years ago she started putting on a lot of weight and that was due to the medication more than anything else (my mum has a whole lot of medical problems though but despite being overweight actually has low to average blood pressure and low cholesterol, which shows that even being overweight doesn't always cause the problems that medical experts generally say it will).

  • 11.29.2012 2:19 PM PDT

How can you allow yourself to get obese? It just baffles me.

  • 11.29.2012 2:20 PM PDT

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Its not ALWAYS a lifestyle choice. The woman who died in Hungary because she couldn't fly, she was that way due to a kidney condition that caused her to retain too much water. There are a few other conditions that cause obesity as well.

That said, there aren't as many people with legitimate medical conditions that claim this. For many, too many, it IS a lifestyle choice.

  • 11.29.2012 2:25 PM PDT
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I'm listeni- Oh wait I don't give a -blam!- what you have to say.


Posted by: RockdaleRooster
It's a combination of the 2. Sure genetics have some to do with it mostly in the metabolic processes but it's mostly lifestyle. If you eat a lot and don't exercise you're going to be fat. There parents don't pass a fat gene on to them they pass bad eating habits on to them.
I'm sorry but you couldn't be more wrong. Metabolism has absolutely nothing to do with it for 99.9999 percent of the population.

Everyone has a BMR, to avoid getting fat they simply need to consume less calories than they expend. Also getting fat doesn't happen overnight so these people had plenty of warnings that what they were doing was gaining weight and they chose to keep doing it.

Fat people disgust me.

  • 11.29.2012 2:29 PM PDT

yes yes and yes.

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