I see a mountain of hubris here.
Yes, some fat or less healthy people find excuses and are the master of their own misfortune. But there are MILLIONS out there and they are NOT all weak willed and inferior beings undeserving of the pure and beautiful temples that we all think we have earned by the sheer weight of some innate superiority. That does NOT explain why things are so different today as it was in our parent s and grandparents day. Blaming the internet and TV and lack of work ethic does not cut it.
Well guys, it's luck. It is luck because no-one can explain WHY these noble attributes that people are claiming are with them and not with others. When we can explain why it is then it ceases to be luck. It instead has an inevitability.
These doctors that some here are dismissing are the guys that will unravel and explain that "luck". Just as they are doing a better and better and better job of explaining the metabolics and dietary aspects of what is a fairly recent phenomonon.
And in the vain hope of putting a little doubt into the minds of all the self-congratulatory self-made, high will powered healthy egos out there (fat chance methinks) - in my many years of sport and activity a great many of my previously healthy ripped lean self-righteous strong willed training partners and team mates are just as fat now as the ones that some of them may have scorned and blamed. And that is just as likely to pass for many of us here too.
When many of you guys are fifty or sixty or seventy and have fallen behind then it will not necessarily be because you are weaker or less deserving than me or someone else here. But if you too easily dismiss others out there as weaker and less deserving then there will be some ironic justice in your misfortune.
Now my turn to indulge in some self-righteousness and vanity - I am constantly battered with compliments on my state of health. You must have amazing core", "You must eat really healthy'" (I don't), "You are ripped", "You must be the fittest guy I know", "I hope I am like you when I am half your age" ad nauseum.
Yes it is all very flattering and I don't deny that it panders to my vanity. And I do like to be the guy that others look to to lift that heavy object onto the top shelf. But while I (too often
)bask in the compliments, I am not so arrogant as to believe that all those millions and millions less physically capable are so because I am better than them and they are weaker than me. The continued good health of anyone is dependent on a great many fragile circumstances. Serendipity. Those times when I have slipped a little or a lot remind me of that. A niggle here, an accident there, a family crisis of some sort...
End of angry rant. Peace on earth.