Almost everyone on my fathers side is dead. So I grew up in an Asian American household in America. It is not normal for Asians to be obese especially almost the whole family. No it wasn't a genetic thing, but a lifestyle. Years of eating family style of greasy food led to half my family being wiped out. I've been to too many funerals that I don't even cry anymore. My grandparents were obese. Grandpa passed away a few years ago from cancer. My father was borderline obese and died in his 40s from an aneurysm. My aunt died in her 40s from a heart attack. She stole tens of thousands from my father and grandpa after my father passed. This pig deserved it. My grandma is the other lazy pig who lived off my grandpa without ever working a day in her life in the past.  Fast forward now to the present day and my brother and sister are both obese. Sister might be 300 in a few years. Brother might hit 240 or so. I'm the only normal one. My mother is thin and so is everyone on her side. They walk and exercise everyday and shockingly everyone on her side is alive! What a shocker. I didn't get my mother genetics. I eat just like them. In fact I eat more, but I'm running 8-10 miles everyday or weightraining. I'm absolutely embarrassed by my siblings that I can't even go out with them for a meal or introduce them to my friends or S.o. It's like two different lifestyles and they are repulsive and delusional.  Don't take me as a heartless bastard because I do care about them, but I've given up trying to help them. Doctors told my sister she will die in her mid 30s. Seeing how the trend is in my family, I wouldn't disagree with the Internist. I don't get how people can keep stuffing themselves and do nothing about it especially when you are young.