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Re:Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disas... by wharvle on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:02PM (#38451978)
The phenomenon of people from skinnier (but developed) countries spending some time in the US and complaining that they gain a lot of weight suggests a pretty damn strong environmental component. Strong to the point of overwhelming most other factors, to my eye, at least.
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Re:Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disas... by nickpp on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:09PM (#38452073)
Is there some study about this “phenomenon” this or is it all anecdotes?
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Re:Charlie Munger – Feeling Like a Victim Is Perfectly Disas... by wharvle on Tuesday November 28, 2023 @05:20PM (#38452212)
My very first, naive attempt at DDG’ing this revealed a bunch, yeah. Quantified weight gain in immigrants, studies of gain then loss again once moving back to the original country, all kinds of angles of approaching it.

A second search with a slightly more specific topic of “weight gain in us immigrants” on DDG was mostly studies (or pages collecting multiple studies) on page 1 of the results.

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