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They'll learn, and change their ways. and die later Or not, and die.earlier
Alan B wrote:
aufbahrung wrote:Everyone gotta die. Question is do you want to die with a recollection of youth still clear in memory, a good appetite and a heart attack at 57 or die slightly thinner, from cancer and with a failing memory of no consequence at 75.
Alan B wrote:The 40,000 Americans who died during August due to being overweight wasn't laid at the door of 'genetics'.
Keep It Real wrote:Eye (I), but still alive, and WHAT a life, Fal.
Keep It Real wrote:I was just very pleased to find out he's still with us the other day been watching Cracker...
purplerat wrote:Alan B wrote:The 40,000 Americans who died during August due to being overweight wasn't laid at the door of 'genetics'.
That seems like a rather obtuse understanding of genetics. For one it ignores the genetic components related to obesity. Secondly people rarely die simply of being too fat. Rather being overweight contributes to some other illness that likely has a genetic component as well.
Alan B wrote:purplerat wrote:Alan B wrote:The 40,000 Americans who died during August due to being overweight wasn't laid at the door of 'genetics'.
That seems like a rather obtuse understanding of genetics. For one it ignores the genetic components related to obesity. Secondly people rarely die simply of being too fat. Rather being overweight contributes to some other illness that likely has a genetic component as well.
Of course there is a genetic component to the cause of death. That's obvious. But it is the external 'forces' (eating too much) that triggers a 'genetic response' resulting in an illness. Stop eating to excess and there will be no associated 'genetic response', illness or death. The genetics is only automatically responding to a situation not of its own making. It can share no part of the blame.
This is like adding diesel to the petrol in a car's fuel tank. If this continues over a period of time, the car will deteriorate in performance. Different models (different 'genetics') will behave differently but the car will eventually fail. You can't blame the car.
purplerat wrote:Alan B wrote:purplerat wrote:Alan B wrote:The 40,000 Americans who died during August due to being overweight wasn't laid at the door of 'genetics'.
That seems like a rather obtuse understanding of genetics. For one it ignores the genetic components related to obesity. Secondly people rarely die simply of being too fat. Rather being overweight contributes to some other illness that likely has a genetic component as well.
Of course there is a genetic component to the cause of death. That's obvious. But it is the external 'forces' (eating too much) that triggers a 'genetic response' resulting in an illness. Stop eating to excess and there will be no associated 'genetic response', illness or death. The genetics is only automatically responding to a situation not of its own making. It can share no part of the blame.
This is like adding diesel to the petrol in a car's fuel tank. If this continues over a period of time, the car will deteriorate in performance. Different models (different 'genetics') will behave differently but the car will eventually fail. You can't blame the car.
If there is a common problem with cars, even if it was primarily caused by operator error, we most certainly would "blame cars" at least in the sense that we'd figure out how change them to prevent that situation from happening rather than simply telling people to "be better drivers". A lot of unnecessary deaths have been prevented exactly because we've treated cars that way.
purplerat wrote:If there is a common problem with cars, even if it was primarily caused by operator error, we most certainly would "blame cars" at least in the sense that we'd figure out how change them to prevent that situation from happening rather than simply telling people to "be better drivers". A lot of unnecessary deaths have been prevented exactly because we've treated cars that way.
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