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Why are you fat?  Or, why is it that you have high cholesterol? Contrary to popular belief, overeating and lack of exercise are not the primary causes of excess weight or high cholesterol.  If you think about it, there should be no way to "overeat"; the body should just eat what it needs and want no more.  Also, a person living a relatively active life, shouldn't need to go jogging or go to the gym just to stay in shape; the body should, under normal, everyday activity stay basically in shape.   So what is going on here?   Well, there are two possible things going on.
Scenario (1):  The body is storing more than it needs on a regular basis.  In this scenario, the person in question is experiencing too much stress.  This excess stress is then triggering the
fight or flight response, causing the body to store more food.  But since modern day stressor's aren't necessarily those that require excess nutrient stores, such excess nutrients turn to fat and/or cholesterol over time.
Scenarion (2):  The body desires more food than it needs.   In this scenario, the body is being affected by the compulsivity of the mind.  The cause of this compulsivity comes directly from acting like a prick (i.e., intentionally or negligently causing stress in others).  For some reason, being a prick, triggers the vices of greed and gluttony.   This scenario is not entirely separate from scenario (1), since acting like a prick can stress you out as well.  Pricks are always more stressed than non-pricks, so they also usually fall victim to scenario (1).

Now it is true that not all pricks are fat or suffering from high cholesterol .   But, over time, one or the other condition will eventually get them.
And one does not need to be a prick to be fat or have high cholesterol or both.   One could merely be stressed out by the events of one's life or perhaps  on the regular recieving end of a prick's (or a set of prick's) actions -- and thus fall victim to scenario (1).
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