Processed foods and a sedentary lifestyle = fat people.

The "Obesity Boom" started when the government told us to eat a low-fat diet. An explosion of low-fat, "healthy" food items appeared in the grocery stores, most of them full of sugar and simple carbs that quickly become sugar. Sugar while doing exercise is one thing, eating sugar while sitting on the couch playing X-box or watching Jersey Shore marathons is quite another. Junk food doesn't trigger the "I'm full" response from your body so you just keep shoveling it in. Fast food used to be a treat, now it's a daily affair for lots of people. Saturated fats became evil because of a doctor and his faulty research and now everyone cooks with crappy vegetable oils that are even worse for you.

Kids no longer walk to school or play outside or ride bikes. Adults buy riding lawnmowers for their postage stamp sized yards and leaf blowers.

Eat real food, eat less of it, and go ride your bike. Quit blaming genetics and the BMI scale.

-I'm bbattle and I'm a fattie who will demolish any bag of potato chips that somehow gets into my house. 5' 8" and 164 lbs.

another blog to check out: http://www.fatcyclist.com/