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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The body does not have a calorie counting function – everything is regulated through hormones.
For example, if you give type ii diabetics insulin to help control their blood glucose, they will gain weight. Insulin blocks burning fat and therefore leads to more hunger rather than burning body fat.
People that are obese are that way not because they can’t control their appetite, they are obese because the food they are made them insulin resistant and that makes it very hard for them to burn body fat. If you can’t burn body fat it is very hard to lose weight.
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