can obeisity be passed down to the other genertion.?

Question

no on in my family is there average weight

Answer 1

Obesity tends to run in families, suggesting that it may have a genetic cause. However, family members share not only genes but also diet and lifestyle habits that may contribute to obesity. Separating these lifestyle factors from genetic ones is often difficult. Still, growing evidence points to heredity as a strong determining factor of obesity. In one study of adults who were adopted as children, researchers found that the subjects' adult weights were closer to their biological parents' weights than their adoptive parents'. The environment provided by the adoptive family apparently had less influence on the development of obesity than the person's genetic makeup.

Nevertheless, people who feel that their genes have doomed them to a lifetime of obesity should take heart. As discussed in the next section, many people genetically predisposed to obesity do not become obese or manage to lose weight and keep it off.

Environmental Factors:
Although genes are an important factor in many cases of obesity, a person's environment also plays a significant part. Environment includes lifestyle behaviors such as what a person eats and how active he or she is. Americans tend to have high-fat diets, often putting taste and convenience ahead of nutritional content when choosing meals. Most Americans also don't get enough exercise.

People can't change their genetic makeup, of course, but they can change what they eat and how active they are. Some people have been able to lose weight and keep it off by:

-Learning how to choose more nutritious meals that are lower in fat.
-Learning to recognize environmental cues (such as enticing smells) that may make them want to eat when they are not hungry.
-Becoming more physically active.


Psychological Factors:
Psychological factors also may influence eating habits. Many people eat in response to negative emotions such as boredom, sadness, or anger.

While most overweight people have no more psychological disturbance than normalweight people, about 30 percent of the people who seek treatment for serious weight problems have difficulties with binge eating. During a binge eating episode, people eat large amounts of food while feeling they can't control how much they are eating. Those with the most severe binge eating problems are considered to have binge eating disorder. These people may have more difficulty losing weight and keeping the weight off than people without binge eating problems. Some will need special help, such as counseling or medication, to control their binge eating before they can successfully manage their weight.

Other Causes of Obesity:
Some rare illnesses can cause obesity. These include hypothyroidism, Cushing's syndrome, depression, and certain neurologic problems that can lead to overeating. Certain drugs, such as steroids and some antidepressants, may cause excessive weight gain. A doctor can determine if a patient has any of these conditions, which are believed to be responsible for only about 1 percent of all cases of obesity.

Answer 2

There are several reasons that people are obese. some are caused by malfunctioning organs in the body and these can be passed down. Some people are obese because they take medications which slow down their metabolic rate . Steroid therapy for arthritis's and a few other diseases also cause waight gain. this type of obeisity is not hariedity

Answer 3

People either have a tendency to be obese or not, and then that is mixed with actual behaviors that might make it more or less likely. We all know couch potatoes who eat like crazy and never seem to gain an ounce, as well as people who seem to do all the healthy things and have trouble keeping the weight off. The tendency is definitely inherited, but because behaviors can modify weight, it doesn't mean that if your parents are heavy you have to be that way. It may very well mean that it will be harder for you NOT to be heavy, though.

Answer 4

Yes and no. It also depends on your decisions and the genes of other people in the family tree. You of course have the real choice of whether or not to be over weight. And, the eating habits your parents display also effecting your eating habits greatly. Just make the right decisions on what you put in your mouth!

Answer 5

Yes. Obesity is of two types. Normocellular obesity is where fat cell size is normal but the number of cells deposited in fatty areas like abdomen,breasts and buttocks is increased by food habits and exercise. This is not inherited . This over weight can be reversed by diet and exercise. Macrocellular obesity is where fatty cells are genetically big in size. Such individuals are fatty all over the body. This is not reversed by diet and exercise . Diet and exercise in such cases lead to ketosis.Macrocellular obesity is transmitted vertically in families

Answer 6

Yes it can and most of the cases are evident to it.

Answer 7

yes it can. Genes are quite strange

Answer 8

i dn't think obesity cn be passed dwn genetically..people hav dis bcause dey lack self-discipline in eating and lacks exercise.8s just a matter of controlling wat u eat.u can eat everything u want as long as its in moderate proportions.