What does nature versus nurture really mean?
This is an age old discussion about how we become who we are, or what affects us the most; the stuff on the outside or the stuff on the inside. It is very important to know what affects us on the outside, because that is what we can most easily change. What affects us on the inside is what we are born with, and that is harder to change but still possible. The general conclusion is that it is a 50/50 split. Fifty percent of whom we are, what we look like and how we behave is already predetermined through genetics and is in our nature. The other fifty percent, which is what is referred to as nurture, is what affects us after we are born. For instance, nurture means how we are brought up, what foods our family ate or had us eat when we were little, and what surrounds us now that affects our weight and our lifestyle such as what we eat, when we eat, how much exercise we take, how much sleep we get (those who don’t get enough sleep along with those who get too much, tend to be overweight),
