[frankthetank]

When one looks at this through the eyes of PO and impending doom, its probably not helpful to have. I'm over 6ft tall and less then 140pds, and eat healthy, but don't starve myself. I think i may have it considering i'm almost 30.

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('', 'A')nd in an interesting twist, Graff notes that this gene was originally discovered by a graduate student at Yale University more than 50 years ago. The student, Winifred Doane, was studying fruit flies and noticed that some were particularly fat while others were quite skinny. Doane, now a professor emeritus at Arizona State University, traced the differences in fly fitness to a single gene that she named “adipose.”

[Narz]

I probably have the skinny gene too. Oh well, I don't expect "famine conditions" and if they happen, my agile skinny ass'll be out hustling for food and scavenging while the fatties are too weak from the sudden & unexpected detox.

[Kingcoal]

So nature wants to maintain diversity, makes sense. In a primative society, powerful humans who are good hunters and providers were probably also physically fit, which makes sense that nature makes us attractive to skinny folks.

What doesn't make sense is that it would seem that fat women have advantages all around. They have the reserves not only for themselves, but also for the the babies they carry. That would seem to be an evolutionary advantage. On the other hand, maybe fat women's children starved because their mother ate all the food.

[Baldwin]

I on the other hand have the fleshy gene. During the schoo lday, I go regularly for 10 hours without food (my choice, the food at school is frozen, then fried. I'd rather go without). The most I've gone is 13.5 and I have gone for a full day or two without a real meal.

It hasn't killed me. In our society where food normally is found easily, we can go without for some time before becoming physically ill. I'm not "fit", but I don't worry about "keeping my blood sugar up" or that sort of nonsense every 3 hours. I love these "healthy" people who get sick if they don't eat every 6 hours.

[jasonraymondson]

If I don't eat, I become lethargic and am unable to maintain a thought in my head. But, I am hypoglycemic, but then I eat to much and pass out for 3 hours

[hubbertspeak7777777]

$this->bbcode_second_pass_quote('jasonraymondson', 'I')f I don't eat, I become lethargic and am unable to maintain a thought in my head. But, I am hypoglycemic, but then I eat to much and pass out for 3 hours