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Quote by: Thanatos  Obesity can be genetic. My mom is as fat as a whale and its no fault of hers. I see how much she eats and how much exercise she gets and by rights she should be a walking skeleton; to lose weight she has to eat like 250 calories a day. I'm not even sure if that's supposed to be medically possible.
However most extremely fat people do not have bizarre metabolic mutations (or even psychiatric disorders) and are simply enormous...insert descriptive adjective or noun here. If you want to occupy your seat and mine on an airplane I'm staying put. |
Yep, the tendency to gain weight easily is genetic. But it has to be activated by lifestyle. One can compensate for genetics by adjusting carloic intake and physical activity accordingly.
Your mother may have a thyroid problem or something, because what you describe is way beyond the bounds of a genetic tendency.