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Orthogonal questions:If obesity is mainly genetic then why weren't there as many fat people a hundred years ago as there is today?
If obesity is just a natural variation in human body habitus, why do some populations not have many obese people at all?
If there are some individuals for whom caloric deficit simply cannot ever result in weight loss and therefore diets don't work, why don't we see at least a few obese people in famine-stricken areas where malnutrition is endemic? Why, for example, do none of the photos documenting the Ethiopian famine of the mid-1980s showcase the fat and sassy famine victims? Why weren't there any very fat prisoners in Nazi concentration camps? Where are all the infinifat Yemenis?