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I'm ok with that. Just because you don't agree with my perspective doesn't mean that mine is wrong. (Which it's not, of course.)
I don't have an answer for this, sorry.
I'll answer for you-- it's because of the societal context that those populations live in. Everything from diet, to culture, to reduced income inequality, to transportation, to legislative-mandates on improving food access, health, and exercise access by the societal welfare nets in those respective countries-- these are some of very many variables that results in European countries not suffering with obesity & obesity-related illnesses to anywhere close to the same extent as the US.
If you simply try and address obesity to 'stop being lazy, and work harder', your are individualizing and depoliticizing a problem that is intrinsically social. Addressing obesity by telling people to eat healthier & work out more will work as well as it has up until this point in time.
How do you figure? All it did was prove your statement, not withstanding your cute word game, was rubbish.
It might be a word-game to you, but it's an enormous distinction in the field of Genetics. Even if I were to say 'disposition', it's very clear that even the disposition is meaningless (seeing as people who have that disposition were not obese for centuries-- along with the disposition representing a small, small segment of today's obese population).