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Secrets of people who are naturally thin

How can they eat whatever they want and never gain a pound?!”

People have been asking this question about folks who are thought to be “naturally thin” for decades.

In a nutshell:

Dont make assumptions about anyone based on their weight. Most of all, don’t assume that someone with a large or small body size got there because of what they eat or how active they are.

Genes are powerful at any size.

We know genes affect weight and body composition in complex, overlapping ways.

We also know humans, on average, have gotten much bigger in just one or two generations—way less time than it would take for our genes to evolve through the process of natural selection.

To make sense of such a dramatic shift, we tell ourselves that we evolved to seek food, to eat lots of it when we could, and to store the excess calories as fat. And when food wasn’t available, our ancestors’ survival depended on their ability to downshift their metabolism to conserve as much energy as possible.

But as a team of University of Cambridge researchers showed in a 2019 study, genes act just as powerfully on people who are extremely thin as they do on those with severe obesity.

Which means that natural selection didn’t give everyone genes that would eventually make it too easy to gain weight and too hard to lose it.

It also gave some people a metabolism and perhaps appetite that would help prevent them from gaining weight.

Nature, it seems, is biased toward diversity.

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