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Originally Posted by Willravel
If you want to stop being fat, you have to do it. You have to change your diet to something more healthy and you have to exercise. Your genes aren't going to stop you from picking up a cucumber instead of a Snickers when your at Safeway. A virus isn't going to stop you from doing some push-ups or walking around the block. A virus certainly isn't making you sit in front of the teevee for 4 hours a night.
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But that's the thing, I can be lazy and eat whatever I want (even buffets), and I won't gain a pound. I sit in front of computers for 8 hours a day at work, and then for 8 more at home a lot of days. Yet, I can see my rib cage.
I'm not ready to dismiss this virus theory just yet, and I would like to see work done towards a vaccine against it to see what the impact on obesity rates would be.
Is it genes since my Dad is skinny (maybe my genes prevent me from getting this virus though), metabolism, what I eat, the level of exercise I do? This is enough of a world-wide problem that I think it should be getting a lot more research done on any lead like this that comes up.