My brother, 21 yo, is like this. He’s ~180 cm tall and has never weighted more than 61 kg (during the 2020 covid lockdown, he made a big deal out of this since it was the first time he passed the 60 kg mark; after the lockdown was over he immediately dropped back to his perpetual weight of ~55kg). I live with him so I know his eating habits: he eats all the time, whatever he wants, whenever, how much he wants and simply doesn’t put on any weight. Is very energetic, no sick look / demeanour. It’s just fascinating to me cause I’m not like that at all, I have to watch what / how much / when I eat.

  • splendoruranium@infosec.pubEnglish
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    2 months ago

    These are the people who then say that if you gain weight it is because you are lazy or weak willed.

    Whether someone perceives it as hard to lose or not gain weight doesn’t really factor into it, does it? For adults the ultimate decision to eat more than one needs lies with exactly one person.

    Really it is 99% hormones and only 1% strength of character.

    I’m not sure I understand correctly, are you suggesting that obesity epidemics have some kind of shared underlying physiological reason?

      • splendoruranium@infosec.pubEnglish
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        2 months ago

        there’s no obesity epidemic. it’s all eugenics to the core

        I’m almost afraid to ask, but what do you mean by that?

        • amino@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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          2 months ago

          that it’s an artificially engineered “crisis” by the medical industrial complex to justify modern day discrimination and refuse to provide healthcare to fat people, Black people, etc

          podcast episode on this