Is obesity mostly hereditary or is it because of the person's eating habits?

Answer 1

it can be genetics but only in very, very few cases.
Usually if parents are obese they have bad lifestyle - eating habits and dont exercise and kids learn from parents and eat what is made for them.

Answer 2

a bit of both really

the word obesity to me - is offensives, why? because whether the word Fat or obesity or someone who is overly large is used.

There may well be a good reason why a person is the size that they are , it could be medical, family hereditary or it could be bone structure.. or some other reason

The word obesity is sometimes used when they can find no other word to describe a person whether its habit or not.

If you are large - take a look at yourself as a whole the bigger picture ( excuse the pun), take a look at your family, talk to your doctor, don't label yourself.. its not nice.. you are what you are, if your really worried about your weight or size ask the doctor if they could put you on a diet under a dietitian.

Here is another suggestion for you. go to Goggle search and put in the words sacred heart diet.. its works wonders and believe me sheds weight very quickly. Doctors recommend this when major surgery is about to undertaken. but don't cheat, because you will only cheat yourself.. and don't stay on it any long than it tells you. Its stops working after a while

Answer 3

I believe it is both. Some are predestined to have more fat cells than others and I believe this runs in families. Just look at most families and you can tell. The eating habits you are raised with, will be how you eat unless you make your own changes. If your family has bad eating habits, and are obese then obviously you need to break that cycle. Do it by exercise and eating healthy, drinking lots of water.....you know, what we all hear. That's the only answer.

Answer 4

If both of your parents are fat (no ad fence) and your hole family is, that doesn't mean that you have to be. The only thing that can be hereditary is that your metabolism isn't as high as a skinny person's. If you want to loose weight and not be as big as the rest of your family (if that is not the case sorry) I would not eat the much and walk, move more. Be active... go out ad so something... there are plenty of things that you can find on the internet to help...so to answer your question it's the person's eating habits. Hope this helps.

Answer 5

I was going to answer that "50/50," but I think I will change that a bit. Most people who are morbidly obese have genes that helped them get that way. Not all, but most.

Most people who put on an extra 50 pounds in their adult life have problems with their eating habits or lack of exercise or both.

We will never know unless they can figure out some of the genes that control our appetites and our metabolism. I think they have found one for sure so far.

Answer 6

Obesity can be hereditary, but it also is affected by eating habits and lack of exercise.

Answer 7

It can be either, sometimes both, but it can also be hormonal sometimes. It's never good to just assume that an overwieght person is lazy. Although many times it's true, there are the occasions when it's not.

Answer 8

Read these very carefully :

When mother Nature has provided us with such a simple and easy treatment to cure diseases and even to avoid them we all must follow the instructions given by her. These Therapies only help Nature to cure us. Let us not ignore Nature in our mad pursuit of science. THIS NATURE'S 'DO IT YOURSELF' ACUPRESSURE THERAPY ITSLEF IS A SCIENCE AND NOT A MATTER OF BELIEF. Try this Therapy sincerely and regularly for at least 15 days and observe its wonderful and amazing result.

Obesity : This is due to :

1. Malfunctioing of Thyroid/Parathyroid gland and late on other endocrine
glands e.g. malfunctioning of Pineal gland leads to retention of water and
excess water in the body and leads to excess fat.

2. Underworking of Sex glands mainly in ladies after delivery of a child.

3. Overeating i.e. taking more calories than required by the body.


C U R E :

Take minimum 3 liters water in a day.

Take Acupessure treatment on all endocrine glands twice daily.

2. During pregnancy and after delivery, take treatment on all the endrocrine
glands. After delivery, increae heat in the body, take the acupressure
treatment.

3. Drink charged gold/silver/copper water daily two glasses reduced from 4
glasses.

4. Drink hot to lukewarm water only during the day and always after meals.

5. In the morning in one glass of hot water add juice of half a lemon and one
tablespooful of honey. Drink it. That will reduec the desire to eat/drink
sweets.

6. Chew food at least 15 minutes

7. Drink 3 to 5 cups of green juice a day adding 1 teaspoonful of health drink
to each cup. This will help to reduce the body very fast WITHOUT ANY SIDE
EFFECTS.

8. Eat plenty of salads adding 100 grams of sprouted cereals like Mung. Also
eat two seasonal fruits + 1 glass of buttermilk.

9. Avoid all food if possible. However, in spite of the above diet, if you
feel very hungry, take preparations of only wheat or only rice. That will
rduce the intake of food. But eat this food only when you are very hungry.

10. Do Pranayam + Ling Mundra + Jogging+Skipping+swimming + Acupressure.



NOTE :

EXCESS WEIGHT :

In the case of females,damage to endocrine glands of Thyroid/Parathyroid is very common. Moreover, their Sex glands are damaged during pregnancy or delivery because of worry. And so when these two endocrine glands do not function properly, these women start putting on weight more around the waist. Because of damage to these two endocrine glands, sometimes even Pineal gland is damaged and so there is more retention of water in the body, which is also one of the reasons for excess weight.

When such patients come, their obese figure obviously shows their problem which can be confirmed by pressing on point nos. 8, 11 to 15 and no. 3. At this time of checking, it is advisable to check other endocrine glands too, so you can locate any further damage, if any. for cure, first it is necessary to treat these two endocrine glands for 15/20 days and only then start dieting and treatment on not only these two endocrine glands but also on the other endocrine glands. I have treated many cases,where the weight loss was from 2/3 kgs to 10 kgs per month. Once the weight has reached normal then ask the patients to continue Acupressure treatment and they will be able to maintan their weight and pleasing figure.