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Every time I read about this I remind people of the Iowa governor.
The feds offered free money to help clear Iowa kids lunch debt.
Iowa governor Kim Reynolds turned it down because "we are in an obesity epidemic".
Read that a couple of times to yourself just to let it sink in. Conservatives are about hurting people just so they can get a couple of easy points in the polls, even if it means literally letting innocent children of poor families go hungry.
Obesity can actually be caused by not eating enough
No really, your body thinks you're in a time of famine and holds onto EVERYTHING it can... You also get more stressed which causes your body to store your adrealine as extra fat.
i think my body is broken because it has always held on to everything it can :/
The trigger for that is epigenetic, that is, it's caused by genes but they aren't always active. There's a "blocker" molecule on the DNA that prevents those sections from being used for making proteins. When certain things change in the environment, you can gain or lose those blocker molecules.
One of them controls fat storage, and activates during starvation to encourage your body to hold onto any nutrients it can get. Because it is genetic though, it's inheritable. So if any of your parents or grandparents went through a famine or a time of starvation, the epigenetic marker could have been removed and you inherit that missing marker, causing your body to store fat more than other people who have the marker still.
this is unbelievable, my great great grandparents immigrated to america during the great famine of mount lebanon, this could be why my body stores so much. thank you for the reply
Conservatism is a death cult.
They don't care if you're healthy, if your community survives, if your kids get a good education, or if the national debt goes up, down, or sideways.
They only do what gives them immediate gratification based on their own faulty morals.