In the video, Weight of the Nation, one part that stood out to me was the nature vs. nurture concept. The concept is truthfully not just nature vs. nurture but instead nature and nurture. Both genes, which represent the nature, and the environment, which represents nurture, plays a huge role in the overweight and obesity epidemic. I always was one sided because I thought that it was just the environment we lived in to cause individuals to be overweight. I always seem to think that an individual became overweight and obese because of the many different foods that individual would consume based on various reasons, such as: taste, price, the amount of food given, etc. But it is clear now that genes can have the same effect of an individual being
