text: for Pete's sake .... how can anyone read this question and some of the subsequent replies and still think the Bible has relevance?  How many kids are bullied at school because of their size, and here you lot are using the Bible to keep that going.\n  Being overweight can be due to any number of things, many cancer medications, many Anti depressant medications can cause the person taking them to put weight on,  A lot of pregnant women won't be able to move some of the excess weight they put on before the birth.  Thyroid troubles cause huge problems for some people.\nAnd the reason there are larger people now than in the 60's is  because diet has changed, people don't home cook the way our grandmothers did, food is more highly processed, everyone has cars, no-one takes exercise even walking to work.\n   I hope all you perfect skinnies who condemned the larger people for no good reason wake up one day and find you all gained 200 pounds.