Originally Posted by krwlz

Now just a theory I've been tossing around for a few days, totally conjecture, but on the idea of overweight americans, and weight loss, I'm going to toss it out. None of this is meant to offend (i really dont think it will anyway, but... )

The american culture focuses heavily on gratification. Consider this. If from infancy and through child hood, you were to always eat until you were "full" I have to imagine this in turn would slowly stretch the capacity of your stomach out. Not a real big stretch of the imagination to see that as a possibility. In addition, as Americans, we eat what we want, not what we need.

Fast forward from an early life of always eating until gratification, and possibly stretching the stomach. Now your 25, 30, or whatever and want to lose weight. Now you try to diet, and lo and behold, it feels like starving yourself, because your stomach is larger than it needs to be.