Re: Does weight really matter to you?

"A. Cairns" <lekker@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> Lord Slime wrote:
> > Sure, metabolic rate changes with age, but is it nature or nurture?
>
> Whoops. Slipping into the either/or frame of mind?

I'm not sure what you mean by that. I was alluding to the
famous debate (still raging) of whether human characteristics
are more determined by genetics (nature) or training (nurture).

These days most people believe that getting fat as you get
older is inevitable. But when you see terribly obese teenagers
and twenty-somethings, and incredibly fit 50- and 60-year-olds
(especially in other cultures), then the "nature" argument
becomes untenable.

I think losing your "drive" is the number one thing. Most of the
population in the 30 to 50 age bracket is married/divorced with
children, unsatisfying jobs and truckloads of societal baggage.
Any athletic goals or aspirations they may have had have been
replaced by the social imperative of trying to excell in the
job/family/home-owner competition (aka The Rat Race). Any
left over sexual drive (to remain fit and attractive) has been
replaced by resignation since both parents have committed
themselves to at least 20 years of raising children and a 30 year
mortgage, with no end in sight. You don't have to be physically
fit to do that.

The other piece of the puzzle, as Sue said, is that most people
have sedentary jobs. Even today you almost never see fat
farmers. But you see tens of thousands of fat people who sit
on their asses eight hours a day.

> Congratulations to you and happy birthday to the evil twins.

Thanks.

- Lord Slime



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