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<blockquote data-quote="Scent of Cedar *" data-source="post: 644265" data-attributes="member: 17461"><p>Just for the sake of compassion: We had an amazing biology professor when I was in nurse's training. He took us through the whole four years. Tall, bone thin man, big red nose. Whatever hair he still had left was frizzy. </p><p></p><p>Red.</p><p></p><p>And shoulder length!</p><p></p><p>:O)</p><p></p><p>But he was an amazingly human being.</p><p></p><p>Looking for the answers to life and purpose and time like we all do, he'd taken a series of degrees in philosophy before he focused on the real, measurable, provable sciences and began looking for his answers, there.</p><p></p><p>He was brilliant, and as noted, amazingly human in the way questioning, compassionate, sincerely humble people are. He lectured in such a way that he composed for us complete pictures of how the body works, and of why it behaves as it does. His teaching on obesity, on why some of us (as he was himself) eat whatever we want and are bone thin and some of us cannot smell pastry from a distance without putting on weight is that Nature sets things up, not for individual happiness, but to preserve the species.</p><p></p><p>Those of us who are heavy are, by genetic design, programmed to hoard every calorie. </p><p></p><p>By genetic design.</p><p></p><p>When times change, and they surely will because that is the nature of things, it will be those whose bodies do conserve every calorie (betraying them into obesity now, in these times of plenty) who will pull the human species through the famines and into generations of time.</p><p></p><p>That is how, and that is why, obesity is happening to some of us.</p><p></p><p>It is nothing you did wrong.</p><p></p><p>It is not that people naturally thin are doing anything particularly right.</p><p></p><p>It's a genetic imperative.</p><p></p><p>There is no judgment for any of us in how our bodies are genetically programmed.</p><p></p><p>It's all about the species, not the individual.</p><p></p><p>I have never forgotten this professor's take on weight issues.</p><p></p><p>I wish his understanding of the causes of things could be made very public. </p><p></p><p>There is much suffering around the issue of weight, because we aren't understanding things from the species' point of view.</p><p></p><p>Cedar</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Scent of Cedar *, post: 644265, member: 17461"] Just for the sake of compassion: We had an amazing biology professor when I was in nurse's training. He took us through the whole four years. Tall, bone thin man, big red nose. Whatever hair he still had left was frizzy. Red. And shoulder length! :O) But he was an amazingly human being. Looking for the answers to life and purpose and time like we all do, he'd taken a series of degrees in philosophy before he focused on the real, measurable, provable sciences and began looking for his answers, there. He was brilliant, and as noted, amazingly human in the way questioning, compassionate, sincerely humble people are. He lectured in such a way that he composed for us complete pictures of how the body works, and of why it behaves as it does. His teaching on obesity, on why some of us (as he was himself) eat whatever we want and are bone thin and some of us cannot smell pastry from a distance without putting on weight is that Nature sets things up, not for individual happiness, but to preserve the species. Those of us who are heavy are, by genetic design, programmed to hoard every calorie. By genetic design. When times change, and they surely will because that is the nature of things, it will be those whose bodies do conserve every calorie (betraying them into obesity now, in these times of plenty) who will pull the human species through the famines and into generations of time. That is how, and that is why, obesity is happening to some of us. It is nothing you did wrong. It is not that people naturally thin are doing anything particularly right. It's a genetic imperative. There is no judgment for any of us in how our bodies are genetically programmed. It's all about the species, not the individual. I have never forgotten this professor's take on weight issues. I wish his understanding of the causes of things could be made very public. There is much suffering around the issue of weight, because we aren't understanding things from the species' point of view. Cedar [/QUOTE]
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