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[yingwenlaoshi]

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[JongnoGuru]

[pdx]

[SPINOZA]

[Hollywoodaction]

[Doogie]

I agree with PDX in that the focus should be on health and not size. I don't know if I have any particular "gene" but I come from a long line of big men and I'm a pretty big guy. But, I also jog/power walk for an hour every day. When I go for mountain hikes with my "thin" Korean co-teachers, they're breathing heavy in no time and I'm feeling great. I think genetics does play a factor in body type but I also think you have to do the best with what you have. I've often wondered about this when you see so many overweight foreigners and so few overweight Koreans. Maybe diet and lifestyle are part of the equation, but it's certainly not all of it. A lot of the Koreans I know inhale vast amounts of food and drink soju like it's water......yet they're stick thin. On the other side of the equation, I know a few Korean guys that pump iron religiously, yet they can't put on muscle to save their life. Mesomorphs, endomorphs and ectomorphs......I think there's a lot of truth to it.

[yingwenlaoshi]

There's big and healthy and then there's straight out of Buger Donald's fat.

[Xerxes]

I was wondering for a while now since the op whether we can genetically engineer a super blob...Look, up in the sky, it's a blimp, it's a pizza, it's Faster Blob.



Able to jump tall sandwiches in a single mouthful, slurp a six-course meal in a single bound, it's a super...market.

We'd rebuild him with recombinant DNA to reprogram him with a macro DNA of the fat genes, yea, that's it. That's the ticket.

Btw, who is the heaviest homo sapien in the world?

[yingwenlaoshi]

I think this guy was:



"Health officials said Manuel Uribe weighed 1,235 pounds when he made a desperate plea for help on national television in January."

But he lost 200 pounds.

[yingwenlaoshi]

The heaviest ever recorded "honor" probably goes to a woman: Carol Yager.



"Shortly before her death, however, she was able to fit through her custom-built 48" (121 cm) wide front door.[2] Published reports quoted her then-boyfriend as stating that he estimated her peak weight at about 1600 pounds (727kg),[3] but when questioned about this estimate, Yager's doctor declined comment."

The above picture looks like her child self is looking up at her adult self quite proudly in a Brady Bunch sort of way.

[pkang0202]

I think a small group of people have a gene that causes obesity. I wish I had the gene that made me eat all sorts of unhealthy food and still be thin.

I know a few people that eat non stop, don't exercise and they are still bone skinny. Their metabolism must be on overdrive or something. Instead of finding the gene that makes you fat, how about finding the gene that those people have.

We all know who I'm talking about. The person you secretly despise because they eat 3 times as much as you do, don't do jack squat but sit in front of the TV and eat, and they can never put on any weight.

[nwise]

Interesting how fat gene(s) never express themselves except when people eat more calories than they burn.

In line with this, I have found that my personal fat genes typically shut off when I eat less and excercise more. (I'm thinking of witing a diet book based on this principle.)

[plokiju]

[yingwenlaoshi]

Twooooooooooooooooo all beef patties special sauce lettuce cheese pickles onions on a sesame seed bun.

[caniff]

Last I checked, calories weren't floating around in the air. I would guess that if fat people would stop EATING TOO MUCH, they would become thinner. Seems like a good bet, right?