Per Max:
...then why are there so many fat Christians?

Easy:

- AFIK, one of the tenants of xianity is that
everybody is a sinner. The thing is to own up to
it, be forgiven, and try not to do it again.

- One does not have to be a glutton to become obese.
A hundred excess calories a day (i.e. one medium-sized
apple) comes out to 3,650 excess calories per year,
and that's a pound of fat.... 20 years, 30 years...
couple hundred calories instead of 100....

- Perhaps the most important: the proportion of sugar
in one's diet. We did not evolve to consume large
quantities of sugar. Sugar used to be protected
by bees... Now it's everywhere and it tastes
*really* good.... read "Fat Chance" by Robert Lustig.
--
Pete Cresswell