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----------------------------------------------- Do These Genes Make Me Look Fat? You're not a hopeless dieter, you're a precision evolutionary famine-surviving machine by, Mason Inman 17 May 2007 In Mauritania, morbidly obese women are considered beautiful. To symbolize wealth in a country that suffers from severe food scarcity, girls are force-fed until they’re fat. In the land of plenty here in North America – and South America and Europe – we don’t have to try so hard. Fat just seems to come naturally. Really, really naturally. While I contemplate this, I’m eating a big tub of ice cream. I’m not trying to make anyone jealous, but I’ve always been effortlessly thin. I exercise little and spend most of my day with my meager butt warming a desk chair. In… http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/genes-to-make-you-fat-or-thin/
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