Comments on: The Punishment Must Fit the Crime—Even for Hermaphroditic, Mucus-Eating Fish

By: AshanaLovesDiscover

AshanaLovesDiscover — Sun, 10 Jul 2011 09:06:25 +0000

You’re completely right, Cath. And amphiox, you’re right about fattening food being cheap, easy, and plentiful. The healthier foods are often less convenient for busy people and more expensive than fattening food.

By: FEROMONAS

FEROMONAS — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 13:37:40 +0000

I wonder if pheromones played a part in this?

By: amphiox

amphiox — Fri, 17 Jun 2011 04:03:01 +0000

with the claims that obesity is genetic why is the us the fattest country in the world? how did we end up with such a concentration of genetically fat people here and nowhere else then?

You can have all the obesity promoting genes in the world, but if you don’t get enough food to eat, you aren’t going to be getting fat.

Genes provide a disposition that only expresses itself in the correct confluence of environmental factors. (Such as cheap easy access to plentiful fattening food.)

By: josh

josh — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 13:35:16 +0000

with the claims that obesity is genetic why is the us the fattest country in the world? how did we end up with such a concentration of genetically fat people here and nowhere else then?

By: Pete

Pete — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 08:42:06 +0000

The scales of justice…
*groan*

By: Cath the Canberra Cook

Cath the Canberra Cook — Thu, 16 Jun 2011 07:49:34 +0000

The last line is not really true, if you check out obesity discrimination.