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Originally Posted by Jim_Gunn
Don't give people misinformation. Health is NOT mostly genetic. Lifestyle and to a lesser extent, environmental factors combine with your genetic background and create your overall health situation throughout your lifetime. The propensity to gain weight does vary between people but it is a trivial factor compared to the variables of how you live your life when talking about what kind of weight you are carrying. What you eat and how much you eat and how much you exercise will largely have a direct control over your weight and fitness no matter what your genetic background is.
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I'm going by what my brother, who has a PhD in genetics, has told me. Maybe he's wrong. But so far, my personal and family experience has proved him right.
I eat like crap and exercise usually consist of walking to the car, but I'm in excellent health for a 45 year old. All my grandparents lived to be in their upper 80's/90's and ate southern fried food, Cokes, snacks, red meat (one grandfather owned a snack company, sold it and opened a cattle ranch), etc.
Obviously other factors come in to play, but when I see people who've eaten nothing but "poor" food choices and are healthy, I have to wonder HOW much
