I had to rant on here because I'm sick of watching my uncles slowly kill themselves. So, my father is one of three brothers of very similar ages, yet extremely dissimilar lifestyles. My dad works out multiple times a week and preaches the benefits of exercise. Without giving too much information away, both uncles lead extremely sedentary jobs, and to go along with it eat like absolute crap and drink ridiculous amounts of soda. Our family is extremely lucky to have great genetics; we've no instances of genetic disease, cancer, or serious health complications of any kind among our close relatives (excluding these two men), and we tend to live very long lives.  And yet I've watched both uncles throw away this great privilege and trash their bodies. Both have had cardiac events, one possibly a heart attack, within the past half year. Between the two men, they have type II diabetes (and associated neuropathies), sleep apnea, chest pains and really terrible teeth.  Guess how many health complications my father has had? Zero. Yet I come online to people dumbly parroting how these conditions are random, genetic, unrelated to weight.  Family means so much to me. I dream of the day I have children of my own, and in these visions I always pictured surrounding my children with the people I love and have spent my life with. And to realize my uncles have thrown away this future for some junk food and hours on the coach is extremely depressing. I wish they had realized their lives were more important than food before it was too late. But they didn't. Sorry for the rant. All I want to really say is that obesity is never an ok option, and it never affects just you.