Polls: Health & Fitness

Basically, the theory suggests your weight - like your height - is pretty much determined by your genes.

"Set point theory suggests that our body has a particular range of weight that it is comfortable in, usually about 10% of a body’s weight. That means, if you weight 175, you have about an 18 pound range; if you weigh 325, you have about a 33 pound range. Most people lose and gain within this set point on a pretty regular basis. They may put on a little weight in the winter and lose it in the spring. Or get busy and drop a little weight. Or gain a little when stressed. Or lose a little during an illness. Or whatever. Movement within this range is normal. However, movement outside of that range is not. In fact the body seeks homeostasis – that is the body seeks to stay within that range. To move outside of that range something must go on, something must happen to the body.

This range appears to be set by a number of factors. The strongest factor seems to be genetic, as a number of studies have found. In fact, adoption and twin studies have determined that about 75% of us have the body size we do because of genetics. For that other 25%, a number of factors can mess with your set point, moving it either up or down. Disease is one of those factors."

source: www.bigfatblog.com/set-point-theory-explained

Some parts of the US actually made it illegal to discriminate based on weight. There are people who say they do feel discriminated based on their size.
Do you agree with weight being a protected class by law? Do you think this law should apply everywhere, and not just parts of the US?
I'm curious as to how others see this issue.

I personally don't know. I mean, yea I hate the fact that people mistreat overweight people so much that a law is even required. Not sure if I fully agree because unlike the other protected classes, weight can for most people, be controlled. But even then, why should a person have to control their appearance to not be discriminated against?
I also don't really like having the law have to threaten us to treat people who are different like human beings. I'd prefer if people weren't fucking assholes and treated those who are different like actual human beings, with no law telling us to do so. But that's not the world we live in yet, thanks a lot assholes.
Not sure about this.

Thoughts? :)

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Make Fat Discrimination Illegal.

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Don't make Fat Discrimination Illegal

Simple, really, which of these girls would you go for, body-wise:

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