/ck/ - Food & Cooking

I am 6'2" and weigh 290 lbs. I hit the gym 5 days a week and can smoke your ass in cycling and swimming. I spar against college rugby players and win. And I'm fat.

The thing is if I treat my body like shit I weigh 300. If I am religious about food and exercise, after about 9 months I can level off at 280. Which by any index would be considered fat. That's less than a 10% swing in my total weight, so yeah obesity, or at least total body mass, can be completely hereditary.

But I think it was a poor decision to call "obesity" a disease. Obesity is a symptom and it can obviously be derived from a number of conditions. It IS a problem in America and now that disease is coming to mean "treatable problem" rather than "something you have no control over" then fine, call it a disease if it makes people address the issue. But fuck the BMI. That shit kills me.