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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In almost all cases it’s something on the lines of causing people to eat more, burn less energy(be less active, etc), or increase in water weight.
Then generally it’s not enough to make someone obese on it’s own.
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