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whoneedstickets Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue May-08-07 10:23 AM
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5. Sure! That's the pro-adaptive reason behind weight gain...
Edited on Tue May-08-07 10:24 AM by whoneedstickets
...But did we have a famine in the 70's that killed off all the skinny Americans or something?



Here is an animated map. I am very skeptical that genetics is the source of our weight gain. It just happened too fast..

http://health.msn.com/reports/obesity/default.aspx?GT1=...
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  -Genes Take Charge, and Diets Fall by the Wayside AngryAmish  May-08-07 09:58 AM   #0 
  - Are Fat genes becoming more prevalent?  whoneedstickets   May-08-07 10:05 AM   #1 
  - Here we go again...  RC Quake   May-08-07 10:13 AM   #2 
  - The skinny people were less likely to survive famine and they died off.  fasttense   May-08-07 10:20 AM   #3 
     - Sure! That's the pro-adaptive reason behind weight gain...  whoneedstickets   May-08-07 10:23 AM   #5 
     - Think back to the 70's ...what things happened then?... that had not happened before  SoCalDem   May-08-07 10:30 AM   #7 
     - I really encourage you to look at carbs.  Rosemary2205   May-08-07 10:32 AM   #8 
  - How fat will all these popcorn threads make me??  TahitiNut   May-08-07 10:21 AM   #4 
  - Depends how much caramel you drizzle on it?  SoCalDem   May-08-07 10:24 AM   #6 
  - Did nobody else actually read this?`  dmallind   May-08-07 10:44 AM   #9 
  - Even without considering  SheilaT   May-08-07 10:50 AM   #10 
  - Good point  dmallind   May-08-07 12:53 PM   #12 
  - Does this mean some type of gene therapy is possible?  dbaker41   May-08-07 11:14 AM   #11 
 

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