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Is Obesity Really Caused By Epigenetics?
The narrative we have is that obese people are lazy, make poor choices, etc. Fatphobia is rampant in our society and medical fatphobia kills.
My mother was obese. I don’t remember her being anything but fat and getting fatter. She blamed it on injuring her back helping a disabled person into their wheelchair, which didn’t exactly help her get exercise.
But I remember her golfing a round or two every weekend, walking significant distances…
…and still fat and getting fatter. Then she got diabetes, which turned as it sometimes does into a vicious cycle of the treatments making her fatter. Eventually it killed her.
My mother wasn’t always the best at eating healthy, but neither am I. Guess what? I’m not obese. I am a little heavier than I would like, which my doctor says is perimenopause related.
But I’m definitely not obese. And I’m getting, oh, about the same amount of exercise she did that didn’t help. True, her back interfered, but…
So, what gives?
There’s another possible explanation for my mother’s health issues:
It was a developmental disorder.