I think they confuse habits for genetic predispositions. The habit of eating concentrated foods without exercise to burn the energy.

Genetics are a convenient excuse for many things these days.

Some people are genetically predisposed to weight gain and many of these (like my aunt and maternal grandmother) are active and eat far less than most people but they put on the weight. I suppose people like this will fall through the cracks and be put in some fat gulag when the social system become more belligerent with civilians and does its rounf ups of those people who do not fit the brave new world's profile of genetic perfection.

The results of eating concentrated food is often passed off as a genetic predisposition. Habits regarding eating are passed on...they way one is raised is liable to be they way one continues.

It's Global Warming's fault!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2114995/CO2-atmosphere-making-fatter-Researcher-says-increasing-size-gas-levels-up.html

Only one way to put on weight, and that is by taking in more calories than your body uses. How hard is this, really?

All fat people claim they don't eat very much but if you watch them you will notice that's a load of bull.

The study states that an hour's walk is a "brief" walk. Few people can find the time to walk an hour a day.

Going from fully sedentary to walking an hour a day is a huge change in habits. No surprise the test subjects lost weight.

George Jonas in the National Post wrote a column on this topic last year - conclusion "eat less, move more".

If the average person is watching 4-6 hours of TV a day, they are not only going to be fat, but brainwashed by the MSM that reports by omission every time they get a chance. No wonder obamalama won with the constant barrage of how he was the one.

I know this when I was 8 years old. Who dreams up these stupid studies?

This article is so stupid it's hard to believe. First of all, any increase in physical activity will make you hungrier. Secondly, it ignores the effect that your body's hormones (insulin and leptin to name two) have on fat storage and release. Third, there is little to no evidence that genetics predispose you to be obese let alone morbidly obese. Fourth, our current obesity epidemic has more to do with stupid "researchers" ponificating on our sedentary lifestyle and hectoring the population to get more exercise, eat more whole grains and avoid saturated fat. The advice in the last point has no scientific justification. It is based on junk theories like the lipid hypothesis, the outright lies about cholesterol, Ancel Keys ego and George McGovern's need to control. If you want to read a more thorough debunking, read this from Gary Taubes http://garytaubes.com/

I used to drink beer slowly, now I am much fitter because I drink it quickly.

Beer, walking, same thing.

After 41 days or so of a transit strike here in Halifax, several people interviewed said they will continue to walk because they lost weight and felt better. Go figure, eh.

The old thermodynamics diet: Expend more energy than you consume, and your energy stores must decrease.

It even comes with its own physical law that says its gotta work.

Ah yes.

Another one of those astonishing POPE-IS-A-CATHOLIC breakthroughs.

Ah yes, science.

The answers to all things. How could we live without such amazing information?

What I get a kick(pun) out of is all the Particapation or whatever ads on the boob tube. They scream at you...kids need at least 60 mins of exercise a day! Call to find out how you can learn how.
I called.Told them to fire the effin teachers,disband the unions,and let the kids play tag at recess and in playschool,daycare. Funny,they never did get back.

Exactly Thinkin, back in the 50's and 60's we had an hour of P.E. It was legislated out of the school curriculum. 40 years later they produce a $Billion dollars worth of scientific studies to tell us we are over-weight, go figure.
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On a positive note, in the last 18 months I have dropped from 250 lbs down to 210, 38 inch waist to a real loose 36, BP is a pretty steady 120/80, cholestral is at 207 and I can sleep w/o getting acid reflux. One happy redneck coonass here !

Of course PE in schools never amounted to much, anyway. The PE teachers were always jocks, whose major focus was on finding athletically gifted kids to play the particular sports with which they were engaged.

And they got caught up in all the jock fads, too. I remember one year we all had to do "isometric exercises" because there was a fad for that going on.

The idea of getting kids involved in sports or activities which they might be inclined to stay with for a lifetime was apparently anathema to the PE jocks. Late in my high-school career, the idea of "community rec" was introduced, and participants were introduced to things like tennis, and bowling, and swimming at the public pool. Of course to get into the community rec program, you had to be an above-average PE student. So the very people that most needed the exercise opportunities afforded by community rec were the ones totally shut out. Kafka couldn't have written better rules.

If I were commissar of schools, I would fire all the PE teachers, because, as a class, they do next to nothing to provide a useful exercise regimen to the kids. In their place, each home-room teacher would be charged with taking his/her class on a 50-minute walk, first thing each morning, rain or shine. Only the medically unfit would be excused, either teachers or pupils. Wouldn't have to be a forced march, just a comfortable walk, maybe a few natural history and geography lesson thrown in. The idea is to get the kids into the habit of walking, and try to make it an enjoyable pastime, not a dreaded chore.

We could rehire some of the PE teachers to work as sports coaches, for after-hours games, or for the few seriously sports-minded kids that wanted to pursue a sport as an elective class.

Even if you train regularly, you can still have a weight/fitness problem, if you're inactive over all. I've had a couple of months down time, so I've been spending 2-3 hours, five or six times a week, in the gym. I do 30 minutes of maximum heart rate cardio, an hour of weights, and 20 minutes of punching bag. The rest of my day consists of sitting in the same spot, with a pop in my hand. I haven't lost a single pound, in fact, I'm gaining weight. Diet and exercise are important, but an active lifestyle seems to be more important.

Hey you can't even play bean ball anymore, nor group sports least you get a sexual harassment charge. No real gym equipment allowed in Schools least they get sued. They ban fast food while surrounded by fast food joints. Schools now wonder why their kids are blimps. They have outlawed fun in the name of safety.
Even walking these days is banned since the kid could be hit by a car or worse get caught in a park climbing a tree.

for fat middle aged ppl's walking an hour a day does make a big dif
did u kno walking will also flatten your abs. i kno this
does work but i dont know bout genetics, i think it's just common sense
exercise = exercised

Did a 12 Km snowshoe trek today!

I'm walkin'! Yes, indeed!

Most morbidly obese people I've seen as a doctor consider themselves as living examples of exceptions to the law of conservation of energy. It's quite amazing how every one of them tells me they eat only a fraction of what I do yet they're 3x my weight. Usually the truth comes out when they have their GI bypass surgery and suddenly find that they can't have the 6 cinnamon bun snack that they'd "forgotten" to tell me about every time they feel a bit down.

It's really simple:
weight = f(calories_in - calories_out).
I've stopped testing thyroid function in the obese unless they tell me they're freezing when I'm hot. There is a strong genetic predisposition to be overweight and it takes the right environment to bring this out. Sitting on ones ass with lots of food around is a simple way to demonstrate ones hypothalamic weight set point. Native Indians seem to have an ideal spherical shape, possibly to have the least surface to mass ratio to ensure survival while crossing the Bering straight during the last ice age.

We've only known for the last few millenia that people who exercise a lot are much thinner than those who don't exercise. I'm glad this piece of important knowledge was rediscovered as it's likely going to revolutionize the field of weight loss medicine.

Fat storage should not be over-simplified, in terms of calories in, calories out. The act of running doesn't burn a lot of calories, in itself, but it triggers weight loss much faster than performing the same amount of work while walking. I can get a cardio workout, and burn calories on a stationary bike, but doing the same amount of "work" while running is much more effective in losing weight.

coach, you're burning more calories running than on the stationary bike as you're not only moving your whole body weight but also resisting the force of gravity. Standing burns more calories than sitting.

For most patients I try to keep things simple as a lot of the people I deal with still haven't grasped the concept of conservation of energy yet and are thus prey for every quack weight loss diet out there.

The biggest problem I deal with are the really heavy people who gain weight when they exercise and get discouraged. For these people, I tell them to stay away from scales for a few months and tell me their pant size. This gets far better results as someone who's very overweight can't help but put on muscle from moving all of that weight around when they start an exercise program.

And they got caught up in all the jock fads, too. I remember one year we all had to do "isometric exercises" because there was a fad for that going on.

You must be my age. That was a short-lived fad, wasn't it? And basically the opposite of what we now know to be true (to borrow Woody Allen's dialogue from Sleeper).

I find that running several miles a few times a week makes you thin, regardless of calorie input. That's a few years in my past. Now I'm old and sedentary and eat way less and am overweight. I can explain every increase or decrease in my life based on diet and exercise.

Any other excuse for overweight is simply BS. Yes I'm big boned, yes obesity runs in the family, but I'm overweight because I eat too much and am sedentary. Every addict has a BS excuse and fat people excel at it.