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from:msnbc.comPeeking into your future isn't as simple as taking a look at your mom. Studies suggest that while your genes may determine up to 80 percent of your weight and body shape, environment and personal choice still play a significant role.
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..."However, muscle mass begins to diminish as you reach menopause, so eventually your body will probably wind up nudging its way back to its genetic set point."... bummer.
addiem - It doesn't have to be that way. I'm 54 years old. I weigh what I did at 18. I had three children two of which were twins. My muscle mass is as good or better than when I was 18. I work our every day for 30 to 40 minutes. I don't kill myself at the gym but I get done what I need to do. The trick is consistency, a good workout program and eating in moderation.
I hope not, I don't think her figure would go well with my gotee.
This science is full of holes. You need to look at other things. Look at welfare mothers that are fat and stay on welfare. Then look at the children that stay on welfare. Compare them to to the ones that get off. The weight should be the comparable if the study is right..
Sadly, I have literally generations of photos that speak to my fate. Like the one from 1912 that showed my grandma - so I thought. An older family member had to tell me that the 7 year old was my grandma. The lady who I thought was her was her mother, my great-grandma - at an age when I knew her little daughter, splitting image - equally "stocky". On the maternal side, PLEASE let me avoid that fate, very heavy line of ladies, tho' my Grandma said her maternal grandmother (my gg-grandma) was a wonderful and well-loved person. For sure, the "pear" line lives on, sigh.
From the article "See, she grew up in a world where women never sweat — and never passed up a slice of pie — while you grew up with soccer and diet-meal delivery services,"
Do women sweat today? It's the same 10% of "tom boys" that are grabbing the athletic attention. Today's population is chugging more double calorie, double fat ice cream, drinking more higher alcohol wine and watching more TV than ever before. They are looking for the closest parking spot at work, the gym and the mall. Even getting out of the car to eat at McD's is a chore. No. Today's women will be filling the frame as a Jabba The Hut version of mom in the family photo album.
Your body is what you make it. The kind of food you eat, the quantity you eat, the amount of exercise you do, how much TV time, etc. No more genetic excuses. Of course as you get old like me, you get aches and pains, so that becomes an excuse. But, you can always do some exercise. If your arms hurts, walk. If you legs hurt, do aerobics with your arms.
I'm now 70 years old. I've eaten all the right foods and participated in a lot of sports;however, I inherited all of my mother's spinal, hip and shoulder problems for which there is no cure.
You get exactly what your parents had, like it or not, and there is nothing you can do about it. I got my mother's feet and her arthritis, but I also got her dense bone structure, so no osteoporosis just yet. I also got my father's reasonably good eyesight. My sister, on the other hand, got our dad's fine bones and our mom's cataracts, so she now has osteoporosis that led to two fractures, and two cataract operations. And my brother has our dad's potbelly and skinny legs. It's whatever the gene dice throw at you and how you use it.
Oh lord I wish I had my moms body...skinny on the bottom and large bosoms. Well I got just the opposite!! How unfair is that one?? It must be the dads side, the Italian hips I suppose..ugh!
This article doesn't make much sense. It seems to be arguing that our moms were more sedentary and overate more frequently than we were raised to do. It's such bunk to generalize like that. What about the medical evidence that we, the younger generation, are considerably heavier and more sedentary than our parents?
My mom was raised in a family that sometimes struggled to get by, and never takes food for granted. It's fuel for the body, and money shouldn't be wasted on junk with no nutritive value. She also played field hockey in high school and ice hockey in the winter, both of which were pefectly acceptable for girls her age. Although she put on some weight after her second child (me), prior to that she was lighter than I am and ate a more balanced diet than I do. Even today she isn't overweight, though she wishes she could lose a few pounds. I would be proud to age as well as my mother has.
I will agree with the premise of women whose mothers are apple-shaped being more prone to look like that as well. Both my mom and dad carry any extra weight in their middles, so it's no surprise that I do as well. Sometimes I am actually envious of my friends with narrow waists and ample hips.
"See, she grew up in a world where women never sweat — and never passed up a slice of pie — while you grew up with soccer and diet-meal delivery services"
What universe was this article written in!? Our mothers never broke a sweat? Give me a break! I am now middle aged... a boomer, my mom and dad were both born just at the end of THE Great Depression. People never worked so hard just to survive. And, oh by the way, they didn't have those nice little appliances like washing machines, dryers and microwaves...or even air conditioning. Never broke a sweat? HA! And ever hear of that little event called World War II? The one where all the women had to go get jobs to build planes, and other military equipment. Heard of "Rosie the Riveter"? And, yes, IF they had pie, I am SURE they didn't pass it up. Perhaps this article was aimed at 19 year olds? Instead of making broad generalizations, perhaps they should be more specific about which age group they are speaking to. Perhaps just bad journalism and a lead-in line.
Thankyou, thankyou, my mother and dad worked their selves to the bone to provide for our family in the 40's and 50's. My mother carried her was water to the house and washed on a washboard.(do any of you even know what that is?) My dad used a sledge hammer and a shovel to dig trenches for water pipes. so don't say they didn't sweat. You don't know what you are talking about.
I know...I kind of chuckled at that part about "she grew up in a world where women never sweat". :) Such bad writing editors.
This study just confirms what most people suspected right along, that body shape and weight are inherited just like other features such as height, eye color, hair color, etc.
Perhaps once this fact becomes more widely know and accepted, there will be less discrimination against those individuals, who through no fault of their own, inherit a "fat" gene.
Unlike other inherited disorders, the public seems to think it is okay to discriminate against and make fun of people who are overweight.
Well, to be fair, yes, it seems you can inherit a "fat gene." However, eating a balanced diet and exercising regularly has been shown to counteract any "genetic predisposition" too. Genes don't change in one or two generations, so how do you explain 2/3 of the population being overweight, when the number was so much lower during the Depression and WWII? However our access and addiction to junky, high-calorie food has changed. Having the "fat gene" means you unfortunately have to be more vigilant about your food intake, but it does not mean that you should should accept obesity as beyond your control.
We know gene split between generations is not always 50/50, but if it were so exact, half of you genes come from mama the other half come from papa's mother. The male Y gene acts like a switch to turn the one of the two female X chromosome off to make a son. This makes for more interesting thinking when the paternal line just is a zig sag line from paternal's maternal line. When we look back at the maternal line we see our faces in mothers or grandmothers. Yes you can look like your father, but then he just looks like one of the mothers mothers mothers.
pause and give it a thought.
I bleieve that I am destined to inherit my mothers tax debt as imposed by Barrocko.