tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363318871765229499.post3067533397563885200..comments2023-07-21T02:28:32.583-07:00Comments on cowcake: Shove your blamewriggleshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12373644421447147066noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363318871765229499.post-40191475570687218092010-09-30T10:56:54.246-07:002010-09-30T10:56:54.246-07:00....many of those who do wish to lose weight have ...<em>....many of those who do wish to lose weight have a belief that it'll be impossible for them to do so in part because of their genes.</em><br /><br />This actually made me grin. I'm going to respond to this and the rest of what you said in a post, in case it's a little too much for the comment space.wriggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12373644421447147066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363318871765229499.post-30984524203694086502010-09-28T08:53:41.367-07:002010-09-28T08:53:41.367-07:00Wriggles,
If you spend some time on my blog you&#...Wriggles,<br /><br />If you spend some time on my blog you'll discover that if there's anything I blame, it's the environment we now live in, not the individuals in that environment.<br /><br />While there are certainly folks who may not be interested in losing weight, a decision wholly theirs to make and certainly not one I'd question, many of those who do wish to lose weight Yoni Freedhoff, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15855979454844538601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363318871765229499.post-23614998555771305212010-09-28T06:19:33.266-07:002010-09-28T06:19:33.266-07:00Vesta,
" Eye color and hair color are also g...Vesta,<br /><br />" Eye color and hair color are also genetically determined, but you don't hear a lot of people complaining about not being able to permanently change their height, eye color, or hair color....."<br /><br />With the power of will, exactly. And if changing these things is desired, the genetic basis of any of these things is not seen as key to changing them.<br /><br wriggleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12373644421447147066noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363318871765229499.post-31701428988686972742010-09-27T09:08:54.902-07:002010-09-27T09:08:54.902-07:00Really?
You're going to use the line from my ...Really?<br /><br />You're going to use the line from my post, "People like to blame genes" in isolation as a thesis that I'm helping to incubed unabashed judgement?<br /><br />Who cares about the very next line, "Now there's no doubt whatsoever that genes affect weight".<br /><br />And forget too about the <a href="http://www.weightymatters.ca/search/label/Bias" Yoni Freedhoff, MDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15855979454844538601noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5363318871765229499.post-4153491725770844812010-09-27T08:31:16.990-07:002010-09-27T08:31:16.990-07:00I don't remember where I read it, but isn'...I don't remember where I read it, but isn't height one of those things that's genetically determined also? And I think the percentage for that matches pretty closely with the percentage for genetic determination of fat, somewhere between 70 - 80%. Eye color and hair color are also genetically determined, but you don't hear a lot of people complaining about not being able to vesta44https://www.blogger.com/profile/15480692717585745934noreply@blogger.com