I have my father's body type, weight gain is generally limited to my abdomen (and a slight double-chin) and my arms and legs are pretty much ideal (and they retain a surprising amount of muscular detail even when I am out of shape). I'm about 45 lbs overweight now, down from 65 lbs overweight a few years ago. My twin sister, on the other hand, is four inches shorter and about 120 lbs heavier than I am. Aside from a body type that deposits fat everywhere it can, she also gained her current weight when she was in a very stressful and depressed state many years ago. Health issues make changes to her diet a bit tricky, but weight watchers has helped her a lot.
Her husband has my body type, but with almost no muscle definition. Even when he's 20-25 lbs lighter than I am (same height) his belly is larger, and his arms and legs noticeably thinner and flabbier. >.<
Her husband has my body type, but with almost no muscle definition. Even when he's 20-25 lbs lighter than I am (same height) his belly is larger, and his arms and legs noticeably thinner and flabbier. >.<
"Well, evolution is a theory. It is also a fact. And facts and theories are different things, not rungs in a hierarchy of increasing certainty. Facts are the world's data. Theories are structures of ideas that explain and interpret facts. Facts don't go away when scientists debate rival theories to explain them. Einstein's theory of gravitation replaced Newton's in this century, but apples didn't suspend themselves in midair, pending the outcome. And humans evolved from ape- like ancestors whether they did so by Darwin's proposed mechanism or by some other yet to be discovered."
-Stephen Jay Gould
-Stephen Jay Gould
