50% of the world population. So many things go through my mind when I hear that. It's sad. I think about the other 50% and how bad it probably is at the margins. Starvation while others have more than their fill. The lack of self control. The commercial marketing and chemical hijacking of the body making people crave and addicted to foods
When she said that your mother is a prime example, that she would have been obese too if she hadn’t have altered her environment. Everyone is predisposed to obesity if they don’t modify their environment, nobody can eat the processed food or overeat and get away with it.