I'm not a doctor or nutritionist. But there are many articles and doctor's blogs that support the theory. Yes, it's still considered a theory, because there are so many small genetic differences that could affect many weight conditions.
It explains why some people can eat, eat, and eat and stay extremely thin. Or why some people eat a fairly healthy diet with the "normal" splurges that we all indulge, and yet gain a ridiculous amount of weight. Just like we can be genetically inclined to have high cholesterol, it is thought that we can also be inclined to obesity or extreme thinness.
Think it's a bunch of hogwash? That it's all within the control of the individual? How about this for you?
Kylie and Kendall Jenner - Daughters to Bruce Jenner, Olympian, and Kris Jenner.
Kourtney, Kim, and Khloe Kardashian - daughters to Robert Kardashian and Kris Jenner
If you don't know who these women are then you probably live under a rock and I'm not sure how you have access to a computer right now. The Kardashian sisters have an empire that is highly dependent on their looks, so it would lead one to believe that they focus a lot of time on staying in shape. I got these candid shots, because I didn't want the ridiculous amount of photoshop that is applied to their magazine photo shoots to distort my point.
Khloe Kardashian has publicly struggled with her weight, Kim ain't no itty bitty thing, and their brother Robert has also recently struggled with his weight.
Kylie and Kendall? They are slim and lean runway models. What is the only difference between these siblings? Their fathers. The children of the Olympian Bruce Jenner (a.k.a. one of the best athletes in the world), do not have the same curves as Robert Kardashian's daughters. They both have the same mother, and yet their body builds are so completely different. Kim Kardashian couldn't have hips the width of her little half-sisters' if she had the smallest amount of healthy body fat allowable.
I don't need a study to tell me that genetics play a role. It's right in front of our faces.
This is just another reason why there is never a winner in the comparison game. What else does it mean?
Unfortunately, it means that if you are genetically inclined to obesity you have to put in three times the effort as someone who is more athletically genetically inclined. It doesn't mean that you can't be in shape and healthy, but your healthy shape may be a 10 not a size 2. Your healthy isn't necessarily another person's healthy. Again, I'm no doctor, but sometimes common sense is a science all it's own.
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