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It's not the only cause but, from my experience, it's a big one, no pun intended. I might have made different diet choices as a young man if I knew that body f

It's not the only cause but, from my experience, it's a big one, no pun intended. I might have made different diet choices as a young man if I knew that body fat aromatizes testosterone into estrogen. This is the primary cause for most cases of gynecomastia, which is why it's rare to see a man with breasts who isn't also overweight to some extent. Obesity is effectively feminizing a large portion of men and lowering their sexual market value. Overall, I think obesity is making people less attracted to each other, which can partially explain the decline in the rate of reproduction.

Coding_Cat 6y ago
> which is why it's rare to see a man with breasts who isn't also overweight to some extent. While (assumedly) true, I feel the need to note that the reverse does not hold generally: 'man boobs' are purely fat in nearly all cases and will go away when someone loses weight. Gynecomastia is breast tissue and does not go away if you lose weight.
fortran77 6y ago
In my opinion, it's the biggest problem facing us. Even this COVID pandemic would have been much less expensive without an obese population, because our hospital capacity may not have been pushed to its limits. CDC says being obese triples the likelihood a person would need hospitalization: https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html https://www.cdc.gov/obesity/data/obesity-and-covid-19.html I don't see a solution. We're not going to be able to use the same techniques used to get people not to smoke to address the obesity problem.