Am I Destined To Be This Size?

Food, We Need To Talk

Juna Gjata

Nutrition, Health & Fitness, Health

4.8 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 20 January 2020

⏱️ 18 minutes

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Summary

You know better than to expect life to be fair. But still, it's enough to drive anyone crazy: Some people seem to be able to eat anything they want and never gain weight.

About 50% of weight variation stems from genetics, according to Rooth Loos, a professor of public health at the Icahn School of Medicine. We'll also hear from Yale neuroscientist Dana Small.

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0:00.0	So there's a podcast I want to tell you guys about and it's called Wait for it.
0:03.6	Weight as in W-E-I-G-H-T.
0:07.0	Wait for it is a narrative show that tells the story of folks who can't stop thinking about their
0:11.9	weight.
0:13.3	I wonder who that sounds like.
0:14.8	Whether losing, gaining, or maintaining,
0:16.6	there are so many ways in which our interactions
0:18.8	with our weight fuel our interactions
0:20.8	with society at large.
0:22.3	Hosted by Ronald Young Jr.
0:23.7	Wait for it tells not only his story but the stories of all types of folks
0:27.7	fat and straight-sized who can't seem to keep weight off their minds.
0:31.8	Subscribe to wait for it wherever you get your podcasts. seem to keep weight off their minds.
0:32.5	Subscribe to wait for it wherever you get your podcasts.
0:36.6	So if you're listening to this, you've probably
0:38.6	had the thought once or a thousand times
0:41.2	that there just seemed to be certain people in your life who like basically eat
0:45.2	whatever they want and also just never gain weight Eddie I suspect that you may be one of these people first of all but second of all have you
0:54.9	ever encountered any of these types of people first off I deny the charges I'm not one of
0:59.2	those people I am concerned about what I eat because if I eat the wrong things I will and do gain weight
1:05.3	But I know the people you're talking about I've seen them they eat whatever they want and it can drive you nuts
1:12.1	You're over here busting your butt
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