How can diseases cause obesity?

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I just watched an episode of House and he diagnosed a girl with Cushing’s – an illness that can cause obesity.

How is that possible? I was under the impression that our bodies use energy we get from food, and if it doesn’t get the food it’ll burn fat resulting in us getting slimmer – how can a disease change that?

How does it not go against some laws of thermodynamics? Maybe I’m just being silly.

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There is no disease in the world that causes a person to be unable to lose weight by eating less.

The disease only makes it difficult.

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