The obituary for obesity

GM🦁 This is Andrew's Apples, the 2-min health email for the little misfits out there. Mmm. Let's go. 

⛪ Chill, obesity is genetic.  Sike! Last month, a leading Harvard scientist went on 60 Minutes and said in no unclear terms: "The number one cause of obesity is genetics." She went on to say if you are born to obese parents you have a 50-85% likelihood of being obese EVEN with optimal diet, exercise, sleep, and stress management. Reminder: this applies to 120 million obese Americans (over 1/3 of the population).  🍎Andrew's Take.  Well folks, you heard the almighty mandarin speak and the verdict is: you're fat and there is not much you can do about it. I must remind myself daily why I can't watch cable. Makes my blood boil to a pink gas. I cannot dream up a worse (and more inaccurate) message to send to millions tuning in to the program. The second half of her line is great — "even" if victims clean up diet and sleep and so on. OK... when has that ever been the case? Have tens of millions of these folks enacted an ideal regimen and still seen negligible results? Well, that would have to be the case for the doctor's claim to be legit. Idk about you, but I don't want my doctor to be nice (that's what loopy grandma is for), I want my doctor to fix me.

💅 At the same time...  A fresh paper out of the Cell medical journal on Tuesday finds that epigenetic traits (meaning environmental, not genetic) can be passed down up to six generations, in mice at least. Consider famine, concentration camps, and other totalitarian-driven trauma. You think grandpa went through some shit? How about his grandpa? This finding, if true, would challenge centuries of thought concerning what else does one give their child, aside from eye and hair color? 🍎Andrew's Take.  Again, it is all too easy to see the negative here. Someone conveniently defending their depression because their great ancestor endured horrific things, etc. There probably is some truth in that, but nothing helpful (for most people). By and large, such capitulations result in more psychiatric drugs distributed  and the ringing of the therapists' cash registers. Instead, the victim should flip the script and decide to deliver pristine epigenetic information to their own offspring, severing as much of the bad "code" at the throat before it reaches the next litter. In two words: good parenting. 

🕊️ Tweet of the Day.  As a dude who does not have spiky gravity-defying anime-thick hair, the salty seawater trick works. This is what I use. Bitchin'!!!

How about them Apples? Hit me with any comments or questions. 

Andrew🍎 

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