Reply #100: try medical science

[pitohui]

you are going to find huge, huge numbers of doctors, pharmacists, and researchers who believe that certain medications do cause weight gain

in fact, the warning information with many medicines does mention weight gain as a side effect

people who think eating too much is the only cause of weight gain are pretty living in a pre-scientific witchcraft-based era, it is fun to believe that everything is under our own control, all we have to do is eat the magical herbs and poof all is well, it just doesn't happen to be reality-based

i know a man who gained 100 pounds on prozac and he is a pain in the ass he's such a picky eater

then keep in mind that metabolites of prozac and many other drugs and chemicals, including estrogen and estrogen-like chemicals are found in the drinking water supply

you will be hard pressed to convince me that "eating too much" is the cause of the obesity epidemic when i cook the same food for me and my husband, my husband is overweight, i eat twice what he does, i'm thin, hmmm, could it be genetic differences and how we respond to trace amounts of chemicals etc. in our water, etc. make a difference?

the discrimination against fat people and the assumption that they are all fat lazy slobs who eat too much has got to go, i have seen it up close, my husband is not a fat lazy slob