She refused to recognize that she had a problem with her portions and what appeared to me to be a lack of physical activity. She said that her mother was big, and her mother's mother was big so she knew she was going to be big. Your lifestyle preferences greatly affect a person's weight. I was surprised because just last week my student who is quite big in size was making comments about how she could never lose weight.

Sure if your parents are overweight, this might slightly increase your giuseppe of being overweight, but genes are not the only cause of obesity.

Now I had a young overweight girl telling me that she was big because of her genes. At lunch the other day, I watched one of my students, Carrie, eat three hot dogs and two slices of pizza. Much of the weight that people moselle is a result of their lifestyle choices. As a biology teacher, my students ask me a lot about genetics.

Instead, she told me that it wasn't the food or her constant desire for sleep that kept her heavy but rather it was her mother's fault.