Eastern Europeans come here and are still thin.

Western Europeans and Africans come here and get fat right away and a lot are fat in their home countries other than impoverished African nations (which is a lot of them).

Now is this genetics because Western Europe and Africa have been historically not plentiful with lots of higher-sugar food so they can't control their intake as well now that they're introduced, or is it just a difference in culture?


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Post edited at 7:21 pm on Oct. 11, 2008 by Atti

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Both.
I'd say a lot of it's genetic, but partially cultural as well.
I'm a mutt (Greek, English, Irish, and a number of other things in smaller percentages) and I can eat until I get sick and not gain an ounce, yet I have friends that are higher percentage or pure English/Scottish/Irish and hardly eat at all and have trouble keeping weight off. I grew up in an area that had a significant Jewish population, and I literally have never seen a fat Jew.

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Odd, there are at least three fat Jewish people that I know of, and one of them is plainly obese. Most do seem pretty skinny, though.

I've never seen an obese Asian. Minorly fat ones, though.

My whole mom's side of the family(English, Irish, Scottish, French) are really skinny, except for my one uncle. On my Italian dad's side, though, like 60% of the relatives are overweight..