do you think people who get fat easily have a fattening gens or it'sonly because they eat too much?

Answer 1

Unless you have a slow thyroid or other medical condition where you put on weight even if you do not eat many calories.

Everyone else puts on weight because they eat more calories than their body uses.

The reasons for this are many.
You could have a genetic disposition to be more or less athletic - by body type etc

However there are more environmental factors at play.
Food consumption in the developed world has no relationship to the way that we evolved to eat.
Food is processed and unnatural so we can eat lots of food and not be full up.
We don't eat because we are hungry anymore or stop eating when we are full.
In actual fact we ate on average 100 calories more 25 years ago but our daily activity rates on average have dropped by 150 calories so...
we are eating less but doing even less phyical activity.
We drive everywhere - sometimes this is because we are scared to walk sometimes cause we don't have time.
We have machines to clean.
We have lifts.
It is very hard in urban areas with cars to have a healthy life style and to eat food that makes us full up but gives up lots of energy and vitamins.
Thats why the diet industry makes so much money.
Have you noticed the bigger the diet industry grows the more obese the population becomes?

Answer 2

Eating the wrong food at the wrong times and then not exercising will sure pack on the weight. And for some people..that weight wakes up fat cells that are then there forever even if you lose the weight. Those nasty fat cells just wait to grow and thus..you fight weight gain from then on. You have to be careful to eat right and keep an active lifestyle. That is why dieting does not work.. you have to develop a fitness schedule.

Answer 3

I eat extremely healthily and have always been 9 stone and a size 10. However, last year i was diagnosed with an underactive thyroid and my weight shot up to 15 stone and a size 20. Its very difficult to lose weight with this condition but so far ive managed to lose 3 stone this year. Dont ask me what the point is of this answer cos i think ive lost it lol ;)

Answer 4

I think that it is a little bit of both. When you are a child your body is growing and adapting to its environment. If you are obese as a child it is hard for you to become slimmer in adulthood because your fat cells are more in number and they absorb more fat. If parents are unhealthy eaters they will pass these bad habits on to their children. Continuing the cycle of bad eating habits and health problems. Habits are hard to break. Eating a large amount of food and eating at all hours of the day also contributes to weight gain. If people would try to change their eating habits early in life it would make it easier to keep these changes later in life.

Answer 5

A little bit of both. It depends on the person's mental status, physical issues. Not everyone is the same, so don't put yourself up against anyone else. Besides, big is beautiful now a days. you don't need to look like kate moss. If you are thin, enjoy it and if you are large, then enhance that figur!!

Answer 6

for most people it's both... they were born with slow metabolism, but they also eat a lot

i do know a lot of people on both ends of the spectrum, skinny people with fast metabolism who eat more than i do, and fat people who don't eat a lot but have slow metabolism

the best way to increase your metabolism would be to get in shape

Answer 7

Combination of both in some cases, usually they just need to get off the couch.

Answer 8

Both the possibility is there.
Even if a person eats less he / she can be fatty because of gens.

Answer 9

Eat too much and eat too much crap food
Not enough exercise

Answer 10

some of both