Comments by "craxd1" (@craxd1) on "Trump administration rolls back Obama-era school lunch rules" video.

  1. Obesity is genetic and it is within a minority of the population. What they did was to penalize the many for a few with the food. Of course, that is what the left's idea of Big Brother is all about, having the government micromanage your life.
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  2. "Although there are genetic, behavioral and hormonal influences on body weight, obesity occurs when you take in more calories than you burn through exercise and normal daily activities. Your body stores these excess calories as fat. "Obesity can sometimes be traced to a medical cause, such as Prader-Willi syndrome, Cushing's syndrome, and other diseases and conditions."__Mayo Clinic ==== Obesity affects some groups more than others Read CDC National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) data brief "Hispanics (47.0%) and non-Hispanic blacks (46.8%) had the highest age-adjusted prevalence of obesity, followed by non-Hispanic whites (37.9%) and non-Hispanic Asians (12.7%). "The prevalence of obesity was 35.7% among young adults aged 20 to 39 years, 42.8% among middle-aged adults aged 40 to 59 years, and 41.0% among older adults aged 60 and older."__CDC & Do Genes Have a Role in Obesity? "In recent decades, obesity has reached epidemic proportions in populations whose environments promote physical inactivity and increased consumption of high-calorie foods. However, not all people living in such environments will become obese, nor will all obese people have the same body fat distribution or suffer the same health problems. These differences can be seen in groups of people with the same racial or ethnic background and even within families. Genetic changes in human populations occur too slowly to be responsible for the obesity epidemic. Nevertheless, the variation in how people respond to the same environment suggests that genes do play a role in the development of obesity." How Could Genes Influence Obesity? "Genes give the body instructions for responding to changes in its environment. Studies of resemblances and differences among family members, twins, and adoptees offer indirect scientific evidence that a sizable portion of the variation in weight among adults is due to genetic factors. Other studies have compared obese and non-obese people for variation in genes that could influence behaviors (such as a drive to overeat, or a tendency to be sedentary) or metabolism (such as a diminished capacity to use dietary fats as fuel, or an increased tendency to store body fat). These studies have identified variants in several genes that may contribute to obesity by increasing hunger and food intake. "Rarely, a clear pattern of inherited obesity within a family is caused by a specific variant of a single gene (monogenic obesity). Most obesity, however, probably results from complex interactions among multiple genes and environmental factors that remain poorly understood (multifactorial obesity). "Any explanation of the obesity epidemic has to consider both genetics and the environment. One explanation that is often cited is the mismatch between today’s environment and “energy-thrifty genes” that multiplied in the distant past, when food sources were unpredictable. In other words, according to the “thrifty genotype” hypothesis, the same genes that helped our ancestors survive occasional famines are now being challenged by environments in which food is plentiful year round. Other hypotheses have been proposed including a role for the gut microbiome as well as early life exposures associated with epigenetic changes."__CDC ==== There is no denying that genetics plays a role in a portion of the population, where the intake of food causes obesity in certain ethnic groups.
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  3. shugo104: So, you claim that you know more than the CDC and Mayo Clinic?
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  4. Bike!Bike!: Yes, fatty food is a cause of obesity, but certain ethnic groups, due to genetics, are prone to become obese, whereas those without those genetic markers can eat the same food, and not become obese. That is what the CDC reported. Why some wish to deny this is beyond me, when their physician will tell them the same thing.
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  5. Bike!Bike!: The problem is twofold. The majority of the population are not obese, and the second part is bureaucrats trying to inflict a diet onto people, by government authority, who are not obese. I am one of those of the majority who are not obese, and I do not agree with the government inflicting power over the majority for a minority. It should be up to the child, and the child's parents, about what they eat. If a child is to diet, then let the schools include dietary food along with higher calorie food for those who are not obese.
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