1877: Obesity, It's Not Your Genetics
Mind Pump: Raw Fitness Truth
Sal Di Stefano, Adam Schafer, Justin Andrews, Doug Egge
4.8 • 12.6K Ratings
🗓️ 11 August 2022
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
In this episode Sal, Adam & Justin cover ten reasons that obesity has become so prevalent in the past century, and it is not genetics.
- Obesity, it's not your genetics. Your genetics are NOT why you are obese! It's about your lifestyle and the environment you are in. (1:57)
- How are people affected by their genetics? (5:08)
- Ten Environmental Factors/Lifestyle Choices that Play a Role in Obesity. (11:56)
- #1 – You eat hyper-palatable, ultra-processed foods. (12:20)
- #2 – You do not move much. (19:44)
- #3 – You have little muscle. (23:01)
- #4 – Food requires little work, so we respect it less. (24:51)
- #5 – Endocrine disrupting chemicals. (29:19)
- #6 – We stay up later and sleep less. (32:22)
- #7 – We eat when distracted. (36:09)
- #8 – Liquid calories. (41:03)
- #9 – Antidepressants. (44:02)
- #10 – Birth control. (47:55)
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| 0:06.0 | MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, MIND, with your hosts. |
| 0:09.0 | Salda Stefano, Adam Schaefer, and Justin Andrews. |
| 0:13.0 | You just found the world's number one fitness health and entertainment podcast. |
| 0:17.0 | This is Mind Pump. Oh boy, you're gonna like this episode. |
| 0:20.0 | It's about obesity, and guess what? It's not your genetics. |
| 0:23.0 | That's not why people are suffering from obesity. |
| 0:26.0 | In today's episode, we go through a bunch of different reasons. |
| 0:29.0 | Why obesity is an issue. |
| 0:31.0 | Some of them much bigger players than others. |
| 0:34.0 | But nonetheless, definitely not do to mostly not do to genetics. |
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