Can Obesity Be Genetic?! #shorts

When I was born in 1959, 5% of people were obese. Now it's eight times that, 42%. How could that be genetic as some scientists suggest that, oh, obesity is genetic. Oh, it runs in families. Well, not necessarily. In fact, Chris Dawkins' work out of Harvard showed that you're 171% more likely to be overweight if your friends are overweight than if someone in your family is overweight. Think about that. It's the social framework that we live in, the peer pressure, the environment that actually determines so much of what's going on in our biology. And what's really changed over the last 60 years is the food industry. Big food has basically taken over our food supply, has produced over 600,000 ultra processed foods full of sugar and starch and chemicals that damage our metabolism, sacrificing the next generation without really taking this problem head on.