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Great doc! Love the BBC documentaries…

If you hate them you give them reason to hate people who are overweight. Instead, educate the people creating prejudice based on size. Otherwise, you create a vicious cycle instead of eradicating size prejudice at it's roots. You must realize that the 70lb anorexic is fighting the same battle as the 270lb outcast.

I'm not going to watch the show or read any of the comments here but this needs saying when the show is titled thusly:
Thin people aren't fat because we don't eat rediculous amounts of food relevant to our metabolism. Fat people can argue all they want that it's genetic or a disease or in fact any sort of ailment. They shouldn't get different rights, shouldn't get benefits for it, it simply is their own choice whether they like it or not.
It doesn't matter about you're genetics, if you eat well, not in excess, and relative to your metabolism and also excercise in whatever way neccesary, ANYONE will be of good build, or thin if they don't eat quite as much as they should. I have alot of fat friends and alot of thin friends, alot of varyingly built friends and they all realise why they are the build they are.
Seems some people just can't accept the responsibility of looking after themselves, rather childish behaviour really.
Oh and one last thing, I'ev read about this newly coined term 'fattism'?? Come on now you're just being stupid. You're just doing to obesity what the Bush administration did to Islam.

DK McGreeb… i could not agree more! !

Engaging and highly informative doco. Thanks. I have always wondered if part of the reason is the difference in ones's innate love of food. That is people who love food more, emotionally respond to food more, find the tastes, textures, the feeling of food going down the throat as a cause of difference – . Another factor could be the way thirst often manifests itself as hunger, which increases as one responds through eating as opposed to dealing with the cause,ie drinking??

Errh, did you not watch the documentary? Ugh, I find the “black and white” motif you so proudly adorn not only asinine and childish, but rather distasteful and disillusioned. Thin people aren’t fat because of their genetics; this was clearly shown in the program. Yes, there are obese people who eat too much. But there are many different factors that cause obesity; not just overeating. There are viral, hormonal, environmental, parasitical and genetic reasons. To simply, bluntly and foolishly say “stop eating so much”, again, is a cookie cutter solution for a problem that clearly is too complex for your prejudiced mind. What you are basically saying is, “Fat people can starve themselves for the rest of their lives and be skinny, if they want to”. Perhaps there is some minute truth to that for a percentage of overweight individuals. But to that I reply, what is life worth living being perpetually hungry? Naturally thin people don’t have to deal with that aspect. They can eat, be full and satisfied. If an obese person were to drop their weight to a level that is considered “normal”, they would essentially spend the rest of their life hungry in order to maintain said weight. Given your crude and insensitive nature on the subject, I assume you are naturally thin. That being said, you have no right to comment on the weight issues of others. You have no idea what they are going through and you will never know. Your two cents are worth nothing here my friend. Take a breather and keep your primitively prejudice remarks where they belong; in your head.

Fascinating and educational, but think there is a danger in being able to blame genetics for being fat as, it makes exercise and healthy eating appear pointless, when we all know, people should still try and lose weight for their health!!

Yes it is quite believable that we have a genetic disposition to a certain weight, as we do hair length and just about everything else,and that is A LOT harder for some people to resist eating when they are not hungry, but that doesnt alter the fact that most people who are overweight are that way due to bad eating habit and laziness – driving everywhere,no regular execise, ready meals and fast food instead of healthier home cooked food.
That fact cant be overlooked if we want to stop a generation of fat (a therefore unhealthy) children.
In fact it proves we need to keep our youngster healthy and active, and therefore slim(as appropriate for their individual builds) in order to stop them from having to fight I life long battle woth being overweight.

you want what you can’t have