In a message dated 9/14/0 12:39:48 AM, friend9@pacbell.net wrote: <<I don't know how you -- OR ANY ONE ELSE ON THE LIST -- looks. So, again, don;t shoot the messenger. Okay?? >> My family members are tall & the men are quite naturally muscular and the women are also naturally formed pretty well. We are long legged, long armed, long hands with piano fingers, big part of us gals are the bootays! lol.......thats the weight prob there in my genes...hehehe My dad's family grew up with real churned butter and homemade biscuits with real molasses. they hunted their food such as deer the most leanest meat you can eat and lived off the land, they farmed. they grew up actually under weight and never became obeist. later in life they put on weight due to age and metabolism slowing down, which is normal and these are Cherokee people coming from two cherokee parents with the term black dutch thrown in & some thin line of irish/scott blood back long ago & those blood lines ran out by the time they were all born. The prob my family members in the south is the high blood pressure , where the siblings her in CA don't have the high blood pressure ........a nice gene I've inheritated is the low blood pressure, they can't find it most the time and the women who have high blood pressure here in the north have it due to medications that were given to them for menopause that caused their pressure to rise up.... this is my family characteristics due to food/genetics makeup........ blessings, Sali (Turtle)