There's something wrong with someone that weighs that much. Its not just behavior, and its not just genetics, not just environment, and surely its not just psychology, but a fine dance of causative factors.

No one would want to be like that, live like that. I would like to know if this man ever asked for medical help with his weight.

There are medical ways to deal with weight - medical, surgical, pharmaceutical and behavioral.

Morbid obesity IS a disease.

What is it that one person can 'shove twinkies in their face' all day long and not gain much weight, and someone else can eat one a few times a week and gain a pound?

I'm all for an insistence on personal responsibility, but not when there is meanness and lack of compassion behind it.

] "Until recently, I wasn't able to see any light at the
] end of the tunnel," he said Monday from his hospital bed.
]
] Deuel, who has battled weight problems all his life and
] blames his condition in part on genetics

Really? Genetics huh? Because I blame you.

I hate these people who blame their behavior on Genetics."oh Genetics is against me! Its not my fault!" Fuck you, It is your fault. What about the people who lose their legs in car accidents? Every other day I'm hearing about these peoples' strength and courage to learn to live a new life in a wheel chair or push themselves through hours of physical therapy so they can use artifically legs. They have lost half their damn body, and overcome it. Yet you sit around shoving twinkies down your throat bitching that its all genetic. Its not genetic, its laziness.

Its the same thing at a theatre I'm involved with. Everyone there are emotional wrecks. They get drunk and bitch about how much their lives suck. But it's not the fact that they are lazy, don't work hard, fuck around, drink heavily and skip class. No its because they have bi-polar disorder. They are manic depressive. Statistically, its inpossible for all those people to have all the disorders they claim. Most (if not all) are lying to get attention and to excuse their complete failures in love and life.

Fuck these people that blame genetics or some mental disorder for how sorry their lives are. Fuck them because they cheapen the struggle of people who really have to combat these problems on a daily basis.

Half-ton man: It was genetics