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Isn't the absence of leptin a big factor in more drastic cases of obesity?
And, as stated a few times in this thread, different people's bodies react differently to lifestyles, diets, etc. Of course if everyone was functioning at the top of their game in all aspects, we'd all look reasonably fit. But we don't live in a utopia -- pretty much everyone has some kind of problem (emotionally, mentally, physically, whatever). We don't go around shaming and judging people for being in some kind of slump. So why be so zero tolerance revolted when that slump manifests itself in fat?
When it comes to the morbidly obese, another prominent factor is bad upbringing/lack of education. If you watch those "My 600 lb Life" shows, they're all in the south, esp Texas. My guy spent his formative years in Texas and said it's a real thing -- people there just straight up do not know how to eat. They stuff their faces with Chinese food and McDonalds and all that crap b/c they literally have no nutritional education. Couple that with someone who gains weight easily and you have a snowball effect of getting fatter, more depressed, eating more, repeat ad infinitum. Really sucks.
Anyway, I think people are just viscerally disgusted by fatness, esp men who don't want to feel like someone's forcing them to get a boner over a fat chick. Which I understand, but still, that whole "man the harpoon" culture is just cruel. That's not a productive way to "shame" someone, and seems like it has less to do with concern for their health and more to do with wanting to dehumanize and hurt people. There's a difference between shaming and bullying.
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