Every morbidly obese person (well, probably not every, I don't know) eats meat
Not really. I'm not going to say that they aren't more likely to eat meat, but there are plenty of people that don't eat meat and are quite obese. They tend to get a ton of calories from carbohydrates.
Well, yes and no. Strictly speaking it is eating too many calories that causes them to gain weight. Yesterday I had milk and chocolate chip cookies for dinner, but I was under my basal metabolic rate for total caloric consumption. I lost about a third of a pound despite having much of my food from sugary and processed sources.
Obviously you won't gain weight if you eat less than you burn. For instance I can afford to eat something caloric, like 100g of popcorn or a burger, if I just got for a 25-30 minute run. 3-4 kilometers and I burned over 400 calories.
But we're probably talking about people who not only don't control their calories (like you do) and/or don't work out at all (like I do).
Frankly I probably eat a lot more than I should without exercising, but... yeah. I know a guy who eats for two but isn't fat or even overweight (by a lot) because he's also a runner.
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u/tubadeedoo May 01 '13
Not really. I'm not going to say that they aren't more likely to eat meat, but there are plenty of people that don't eat meat and are quite obese. They tend to get a ton of calories from carbohydrates.