re: A friend of mine is getting disowned by some family members for divorcing wife that

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Having kids does a number on our bodies and while some women can bounce back the majority can’t

So why do we now have an obesity epidemic in America when we didn’t decades ago?

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Because it has little to do with children and more to do with food choices and activity levels. We used to have lots more children and much less obesity. I saw an old friend from graduate school and she complained about what children did to her body.

I said nothing but thought she was 30 pounds overweight before the kids and about the same afterwards. That plus age adds pounds to most people unless they are really serious about health.